The effects of population density and malnutrition on the dynamics of whooping cough.
Liverpool, a seaport in NW England, suffered severely from lethal infectious diseases in the second half of the 19th century: the population was densely crowded and malnourished and life expectancy was low. Time-series analysis shows that the epidemics of whooping cough (i) had an interepidemic inte...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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1998
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