Empathy from the sick may be critical to halting disease outbreaks

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A little empathy can go a long way toward ending infectious disease outbreaks. That's a conclusion from researchers who used a networked variation of game theory to study how individual behavior during an outbreak of influenza -- or other illness -- affects the progress of the disease, including how rapidly the outbreak dies out. Empathy from the sick may be critical to halting disease outbreaks