Early rigorous control interventions can largely reduce dengue outbreak magnitude: experience from Chaozhou, China

• Main Authors: Tao Liu (Author), Guanghu Zhu (Author), Jianfeng He (Author), Tie Song (Author), Meng Zhang (Author), Hualiang Lin (Author), Jianpeng Xiao (Author), Weilin Zeng (Author), Xing Li (Author), Zhihao Li (Author), Runsheng Xie (Author), Haojie Zhong (Author), Xiaocheng Wu (Author), Wenbiao Hu (Author), Yonghui Zhang (Author), Wenjun Ma (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Dengue fever is a severe public heath challenge in south China. A dengue outbreak was reported in Chaozhou city, China in 2015. Intensified interventions were implemented by the government to control the epidemic. However, it is still unknown the degree to which intensified contr...