Flu season has officially started in the U.S. and there are already reports of cases across the country. While technically everyone is at risk of developing the flu (yes, even with a flu shot), an interesting new study found that living in certain areas of a city can influence your flu risk. The study, which was published on bioRxiv, a database for “preprints” of articles not yet published by a peer-reviewed journal, incorporated neighborhood differences into an epidemiological model and used census data for Guadalajara, Mexico. In a collaborative effort among Georgia State University, the National Institutes of Health, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego and Universidad de Guadalajara, researchers then ran simulations using weekly hospitalization data from the 2009 flu pandemic.
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