{
  "id": 16075049,
  "title": "Contact heterogeneity in network reconstruction: evaluating synthetic graph generators for rabies transmission modeling",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/contact-heterogeneity-in-network-reconstruction-evaluating-synthetic",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.16.759544v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Canine rabies remains endemic across much of Africa and Asia, causing approximately 59,000 global deaths yearly. Network-based models that reconstruct contact patterns are central to predicting canine rabies transmission and to designing targeted interventions, but the choice of network generator algorithm may alter network structure and outbreak predictions. We therefore compared five network…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}