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Climate variability and Ross River virus transmission in Townsville Region, Australia, 1985-1996

Date

Authors

Tong, S

Hu, Wenbiao

McMichael, Anthony

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

BACKGROUND: How climate variability affects the transmission of infectious diseases at a regional level remains unclear. We assess the impact of climate variation on the Ross River virus (RRv) transmission in the Townsville region, Queensland, north-east

Keywords

Keywords: rain; viral disease; article; Australia; calculation; climate change; correlation analysis; environmental temperature; human; humidity; incidence; model; population growth; population research; Ross River alpha virus; sea level; seasonal variation; tide; Climate change; Cross-correlation function; Ross River virus; Seasonal auto-regressive integrated moving average; Time series

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/76958

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01175.x