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Exploiting powerful techniques from physics and mathematics, this book studies animal movement in ecology, with a focus on epidemic spread. Pulmonary syndrome is not only feared in epidemics of recent times, such as COVID-19, but is also characteristic of epidemics studied earlier such as Hantavirus. The Hantavirus is one of the book's central topics. Correlations between epidemic outbreaks and precipitation events like El Niño are analyzed and spatial reservoirs of infection in off-period of the epidemic, known as refugia, are studied. Predicted traveling waves of infection are successfully compared to field observations. Territoriality in scent-marking animals is presented, with parallels drawn with the theory of melting. The flocking and herding of birds and mammals are described in terms of collective excitations. For scientists interested in movement ecology and epidemic spread, this book provides effective solutions to long-standing problems.

Spatial ecology --- Viruses --- Hantaviruses --- Mathematical models. --- Ecology. --- Environmental aspects.

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In May 1993, a cluster of cases of a lethal disease among healthy young people brought the attention of the world to the southwestern deserts. A previously unknown disease was killing up to 80% of the people it infected.The reaction in the area and across the nation mixed fear, lack of information, and the struggles of doctors to save the victims of an unknown killer with hard science and the age old rhythmns of the desert. What came out was the story of a virus that had been killing since man arrived in the American continents, Hantavirus, with deadly relatives across the Americas and acr

Hantavirus infections. --- Hantaviruses. --- Mice as carriers of disease. --- Hantavirus infections --- Mice as carriers of disease --- Epidemics --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- Rodents as carriers of disease --- Hantavirus diseases --- Virus diseases --- Hantavirus --- Bunyaviruses --- Outbreaks --- Pandemics --- HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS --- RODENTIA --- RODENT CONTROL --- COMMUNICABLE DISEASES --- HANTAVIRUS --- PREVENTION AND CONTROL