UT Toolkit Readies Texas to Fight the Flu
In 2009, the H1N1 virus struck hard, killing millions of people worldwide. The days of wearing surgical masks at the airport during the swine flu outbreak may be long gone, but the probability of a severe pandemic striking again is still high. And when it does, Texas will be ready, thanks to developments made by UT researchers. Lauren Ancel Meyers, a UT professor of integrative biology and director of the Division of Statistics Scientific Computation, and her…