Soil Dust Aerosols and Wind as Predictors of Seasonal Meningitis Incidence in Niger | Zendy

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Soil Dust Aerosols and Wind as Predictors of Seasonal Meningitis Incidence in Niger

Author(s) -

Carlos Pérez GarcíaPando,

Michelle C. Stanton,

Peter J. Diggle,

S. Trzaska,

R. L. Miller,

J. P. Perlwitz,

J. M. Baldasano,

Emilio Cuevas,

Pietro Ceccato,

Pascal Yaka,

Madeleine C. Thomson

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1306640

Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , environmental science , population , dry season , meningitis , seasonality , climatology , atmospheric sciences , geography , environmental health , medicine , pediatrics , statistics , mathematics , geology , cartography , geometry

Epidemics of meningococcal meningitis are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa during the dry season, a period when the region is affected by the Harmattan, a dry and dusty northeasterly trade wind blowing from the Sahara into the Gulf of Guinea.

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