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Finally, notwithstanding limits to precision, the benefits to be obtained from estimates of the average final epidemic size and the timing of epidemics alone may warrant considerable investment in EWSs.
As an example, in a recent report on the relationship between climate and outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis, the authors found that the timing of epidemics is highly predictable from information on the dynamics of a seasonal weather pattern, the Harmattan winds, but that the final epidemic size is not [1].
The development of early warning systems (EWSs) for epidemics of infectious diseases based on recurrent statistical patterns in other kinds of information, particularly data on climate, is an active area of research [1,2].
Apart from devastating epidemics [ 1 2 ] the milder endemic parasites can also play a major role in population regulation [ 3 4 ] . Parasites have many other ecological implications in phenomena such as parasite mediated host competition [ 5 ] , sex and sexual selection [ 6 7 8 9 10 ] social behaviour including xenophobia and sexual fidelity [ 11 ] , foraging strategies [ 12 13 ] and predator prey dynamics [ 14 15 ] .
The NYT front tells of a U.N. report just out disclosing that in certain parts of Africa one in four adults is infected with HIV--and most of them will die as a result because Africans cannot for the most part afford the combination drug therapies that can keep the virus in check--and that worldwide, AIDS now rivals the greatest epidemics of history.
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