Linelist data from an outbreak of influenza A H7N9 in China 2013.

Linelist data from a real outbreak of influenza A H7N9 in China 2013.

Usage

fluH7N9_China_2013

Format

A data frame with 136 rows and 8 columns

Source

This data was originally added to the outbreaks package, no edits were made here. The data was collated by Adam Kucharski et al. from ProMed, WHO, FluTrackers, news reports and research articles. Transfer to R and documentation by Simon Frost (sdwfrost@gmail.com).

The original dataset can be accessed using outbreaks::fluH7N9_China_2013. Within this package the original dataset is fluH7N9_China_2013.csv

This is version 1.0.

This dataset is English.

This dataset is licensed under MIT

Details

This is a case-linelist which contains de-indentified individual level data on clinical outcome, demographics and region.

References

A. Kucharski, H. Mills, A. Pinsent, C. Fraser, M. Van Kerkhove, C. A. Donnelly, and S. Riley. 2014. Distinguishing between reservoir exposure and human-to-human transmission for emerging pathogens using case onset data. PLOS Currents Outbreaks. Mar 7, edition 1 doi:10.1371/currents.outbreaks.e1473d9bfc99d080ca242139a06c455f