zika_sanandres_2015: Zika in San Andres, Colombia, 2015

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Description

These data describe the daily incidence of Zika virus disease in San Andres, Colombia.

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A data frame with 101 rows and 2 columns

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Date

cases

Daily incidence

The data on Zika virus disease incidence reported by Rojas et al. (2016) cover the period from September 2015 to January 2016, over which time a total of 928 cases were reported to health authorities of San Andres (population of 54,513). Suspected cases were confirmed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in the serum of acute cases within five days of symptom onset.

Author(s)

Data from Rojas et al. (2016), provided by Diana P. Rojas (dprojas@epi.ufl.edu). Transfer to R and documentation by Finlay Campbell (finlaycampbell93@gmail.com).

Source

Rojas et al. (2016)

References

Rojas, D. P., Dean, N. E., Yang, Y., Kenah, E., Quintero, J., Tomasi, S., ... Eyrolle-Guignot, D. (2016). The epidemiology and transmissibility of Zika virus in Girardot and San Andres island, Colombia, September 2015 to January 2016. Eurosurveillance, 21(28), 30283. http://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.28.30283

These data were provided under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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