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[h=1]LANL scientists say flu season won?t peak until February[/h] [h=5]By Journal North Staff[/h] [h=6]Tuesday, December 15th, 2015 at 11:29am[/h] SANTA FE, N.M. ? The flu season will likely peak in February in most parts of the United States, according to a model developed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Using historical data, a mathematical representation of how flu spreads through a population and data for the current flu season provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the scientists were able to create a ?probabilistic? model forecasting the flu season.
?There?s no crystal ball when it comes to predicting disease outbreaks,? Sara Del Valle, the Los Alamos scientist who leads the project, said in a news release from the lab...