Evaluating the impact of the weather conditions on the influenza propagation.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Predicting the details of how an epidemic evolves is highly valuable as health institutions need to better plan towards limiting the infection propagation effects and optimizing their prediction and response capabilities. Simulation is a cost- and time-effective way of predicting the evolution of the infection as the joint influence of many different factors: interaction patterns, personal characteristics, travel patterns, meteorological conditions, previous vaccination, etc. The work presented in this paper extends EpiGraph, our influenza epidemic simulator, by introducing a meteorological model as a modular component that interacts with the rest of EpiGraph's modules to refine our previous simulation results. Our goal is to estimate the effects of changes in temperature and re

SUBMITTER: Singh DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7132999 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature