flu {epimdr}

Boarding school influenza data.

Description

The daily number of children confined to bed in a boarding school in North England during an outbreak in 1978 of the reemerging A/H1N1 strain. The school had 763 boys of which 512 boys were confined to bed sometime during the outbreak.

Usage

flu

Format

A data frame with 14 rows and 2 variables:

day

day since beginning of outbreak

cases

number of sick children

Source

Anonymous (1978) EPIDEMIOLOGY: Influenza in a boarding school. British Medical Journal, 4 March 1978 p.587.