Professor Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute, has been researching the spread of the Zika virus and projecting how it will spread.

This work has been widely covered by a variety of news sources as listed below.

8/16/17

• Science Mag: Zika has all but disappeared in the Americas. Why?

11/18/16

• NPR: Zika no longer global ‘health emergency,’ WHO declares
• Computer models help forecast spread of Zika virus

9/12/16

• The Conversation: Zika virus: Only a few small outbreaks likely to occur in the continental US

8/22/16

• NPR: How Big, Really, Is The Zika Outbreak In Florida?

8/10/16

• Chronicle: Zika Moves Quickly, and Scientists Fear That Journals Aren’t Keeping Pace

8/3/16

• The Atlantic: There’s Probably Way More Zika in the United States Than Has Been Counted

8/2/16

• NU News: Underreporting of Zika is rife; researchers project epidemic’s spread

4/11/16

• NU News: Northeastern researchers examine the Zika pandemic