Spatiotemporal variation of the association between climate dynamics and HFRS outbreaks in Eastern China during 2005-2016 and its geographic determinants.

• Main Authors: Junyu He (Author), George Christakos (Author), Jiaping Wu (Author), Bernard Cazelles (Author), Quan Qian (Author), Di Mu (Author), Yong Wang (Author), Wenwu Yin (Author), Wenyi Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a rodent-associated zoonosis caused by hantavirus. The HFRS was initially detected in northeast China in 1931, and since 1955 it has been detected in many regions of the country. Global climate dynamics influences HFRS spread in a complex nonlinear way...