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Optimal virulence in ageing populations

2026-03-20

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Global populations are ageing at an unprecedented rate. For many diseases, age is a strong indicator of susceptibility, morbidity, or mortality. Principles of evolutionary biology can be leveraged to understand how pathogens may optimally exploit new populations, and the impact of this on the global burden of infectious-disease-induced mortality. We parameterised an age-specific R 0 model with 2017 epidemiologica...

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Literature Corpus work: 36c63ff9-a578-5730-bca2-31cfc8202cbe
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.19.712865

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