[Judith Anne]

They could call them Index Patients with a number posted after, for all the people they infect, and another number for when they appeared on a timeline starting, say Feb. 1, 2003.

Like, for instance, Index Patient #45-1 Or Index Patient #82-7

It seems that each of the Index Patients are at the core of a group of cases, and they don't all appear at once...

Just a thought.

[Prince Charles]

That would make sense -- and it might make it easy at a glance to see where mutations sprouted.

[blam]

"They could call them Index Patients with a number posted after, for all the people they infect, and another number for when they appeared on a timeline starting, say Feb. 1, 2003."

Flu geneology. Neat idea. Let's see how that would work, like this, I was infected and died by 10,003-160,000. Something like that?