On a personal note, let me add here that I think there is some really mind-bending stuff in our new book, Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm.
We have here a parallax treatment of disease object and field, environmental stochasticity as an ecosystemic prophylaxis, and an agroecological logic gate for epidemic control,
We introduce a Black-Scholes model explicitly connecting agriculture’s economic margins to biocontrol, the observation the false dichotomy between emergency interventions and structural context may render even an efficacious vaccine dysfunctional in the field, and a socioeconomic geography of the emergence of Reston Ebola in conurbanized Filipino hog.
Yes, that’s right, Ebola in industrial hog (with broad implications for a growing hog sector in Africa).
Along the way we abandon SIR models for control theory because modeling pathogens as natural populations misses the point: As the tag line of my Farming Pathogens blog puts it, pathogens evolve in a world of our own making.
Neoliberal Ebola 