R/fluH7N9_china_2013.R

In outbreaks: A Collection of Disease Outbreak Data

#' Influenza A H7N9 in China, 2013
#'
#' These data comprise of 136 cases of influenza A H7N9 in China, analysed by Kucharski et al. (2014).
#'
#' @docType data
#'
#' @format A data frame with 136 rows and 8 columns
#'
#' @rdname fluH7N9_china_2013
#'
#' @author Data collated by Adam Kucharski et al. from ProMed, WHO, FluTrackers, news reports and research articles.
#' Transfer to R and documentation by Simon Frost (\email{sdwfrost@@gmail.com}).
#'
#' @source \url{https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.2g43n}
#'
#' @references
#' A. Kucharski, H. Mills, A. Pinsent, C. Fraser, M. Van Kerkhove, C. A. Donnelly, and S. Riley. 2014.
#' Distinguishing between reservoir exposure and human-to-human transmission for emerging pathogens using case onset data.
#' PLOS Currents Outbreaks. Mar 7, edition 1. doi: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.e1473d9bfc99d080ca242139a06c455f.
#'
#' A. Kucharski, H. Mills, A. Pinsent, C. Fraser, M. Van Kerkhove, C. A. Donnelly, and S. Riley. 2014.
#' Data from: Distinguishing between reservoir exposure and human-to-human transmission for emerging pathogens using case onset data.
#' Dryad Digital Repository. http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2g43n.
#'
#' @examples
#' ## show first few cases
#' head(fluH7N9_china_2013)
#'
"fluH7N9_china_2013"