Aris looked terrible on Skype, he has some kind of virus. This did not stop him producing some superb results from the simulation though. The data are all there and ready to go, the paper is ready to be written. Fantastic progress. What makes it even better is that we have not exhausted the material there is a lot to be said about the gene x environment interaction effects that we just can’t load into the first paper. What have I done? All I have managed to do is send out the summary of the SORTIE parameters to the people who have supplied data and write half of a text box on how the use of a simple model cost the EU’s rabies eradication scheme millions of euros for the TREE article. The COST network proposal is also nearly done with 30 members from 8 countries now participating.
