Princeton researchers use satellite images to track disease

Satellite imaging of nighttime lights helps track the migration and clustering of people, giving researchers the data they need to calculate the risk of outbreaks of infectious diseases such as measles and meningitis.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cnet/tcoc/~4/7I7Hj2WRSu0" height="1" width="1"/> [More]

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