Brett Campbell is among the leading Australian figures in environmental epidemiology, having secured that reputation following his 8 month stint at Antarctica's Mawson Research Station, where he studied the effects of syphilis on a population of baby sea cows. It was uncertain how the sea cows contracted the disease, but his research was seminal in the development of a model of the spread of sexually communicable diseases among amphibious mammals. He is currently enjoying a research sabbatical at the University of Queensland, where he is working with software architectures that aid the prediction, among other things, of infection rates among fixed cohabitous populations.
As a follow-up to his original study, he's now trying to determine the transmission vectors that have led to a localised outbreak of Antarctic sea cow syphilis amongst research students at the University of Queensland.
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