Influenza outbreaks
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Detecting Overlapping Outbreaks of Influenza
Introduction Influenza is a contagious disease that causes epidemics in many parts of the world. The World Health Organization estimates that influenza causes three to five million severe illnesses each year and 250,000-500,000 deaths [1]. Predicting and characterizing outbreaks of influenza is an important public health problem and significant progress has been made in predicting single outbre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cellular Microbiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1462-5814,1462-5822
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2009.01320.x