The impact of temperature and humidity measures on influenza A (H7N9) outbreaks—evidence from China

The impact of temperature and humidity measures on influenza A (H7N9) outbreaks—evidence from China

Objectives: To examine the non-linear effects of meteorological factors on the incidence of influenza A H7N9 and to determine what meteorological measure, and on which day preceding symptom onset, has the most significant effect on H7N9 infection. Methods: We applied a zero truncated Poisson regress...

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Main Authors: Yi Zhang, Cindy Feng, Chunna Ma, Peng Yang, Song Tang, Abby Lau, Wenjie Sun, Quanyi Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Influenza A H7N9
Temperature
Humidity
Zero truncation
Penalized spline function
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971214016981

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