Whooping cough epidemics in London, 1701-1812: infection dynamics, seasonal forcing and the effects of malnutrition.
Time series analysis of the London Bills of Mortality, 1701-1812, reveals that whooping cough appeared as a lethal endemic disease after 1700 with epidemics of progressively increasing amplitude after 1720. The interepidemic period changed from 5 years (1720-1750) to 3 years (1750-1785) before retur...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1996
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