Climate and the Timing of Imported Cases as Determinants of the Dengue Outbreak in Guangzhou, 2014: Evidence from a Mathematical Model.

• Main Authors: Qu Cheng (Author), Qinlong Jing (Author), Robert C Spear (Author), John M Marshall (Author), Zhicong Yang (Author), Peng Gong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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As the world's fastest spreading vector-borne disease, dengue was estimated to infect more than 390 million people in 2010, a 30-fold increase in the past half century. Although considered to be a non-endemic country, mainland China had 55,114 reported dengue cases from 2005 to 2014, of which 4...