Dengue on the island of Fais, Micronesia, 2011

These data describe incidence of clincal cases of Dengue on the island of Fais, Micronesia.

dengue_fais_2011

Format

A data frame with 57 rows and 3 columns

onset_date

Date

nr

Days after starting date

value

Number of cases

The data on Dengue incidence reported by Funk et al. (2016) cover the period from 2011-09-15 to 2012-02-14, over which time a total of 157 clinical cases were reported among 294 residents. The first reported case is thought to be the index case. The population of Fais is concentrated in a single population centre, and is thought to have been immunologically naive at the time of infection.

Source

Funk et al. (2016)

References

S. Funk, et al. 2016. Comparative Analysis of Dengue and Zika Outbreaks Reveals Differences by Setting and Virus. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(12), e0005173. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005173

Author

Data from Funk et al. (2016), provided by Sebastian Funk (github.com/sbnfunk). Transfer to R and documentation by Finlay Campbell (finlaycampbell93@gmail.com).

Examples

## show first few weeks of Dengue incidence
head(dengue_fais_2011)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 3
#>   onset_date    nr value
#>   <date>     <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 2011-09-15     7     0
#> 2 2011-09-22    14     0
#> 3 2011-09-29    21     0
#> 4 2011-10-06    28     0
#> 5 2011-10-13    35     0
#> 6 2011-10-20    42     0