Estimates of the reproduction numbers of Spanish influenza using morbidity data
Author(s) -
Emilia Vynnycky,
Amy Trindall,
Punam Mangtani
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dym071
Subject(s) - transmissibility (structural dynamics) , basic reproduction number , demography , transmission (telecommunications) , pandemic , population , influenza pandemic , virus , reproduction , virology , biology , medicine , geography , environmental health , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , ecology , disease , physics , vibration isolation , quantum mechanics , sociology , electrical engineering , vibration , engineering
There have been several studies of the transmissibility of the 1918 (Spanish) influenza virus, which has attributed to >20 million deaths. Many of the analyses to date have involved fitting predictions from a transmission model to the observed epidemic curves from different settings.
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