The use of ambient humidity conditions to improve influenza forecast.

Laboratory and epidemiological evidence indicate that ambient humidity modulates the survival and transmission of influenza. Here we explore whether the inclusion of humidity forcing in mathematical models describing influenza transmission improves the accuracy of forecasts generated with those mode...

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Main Authors: Jeffrey Shaman, Sasikiran Kandula, Wan Yang, Alicia Karspeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005844