usflu {epimdr}

US 1975/76 ILI data.

Description

Influenza-like illness data for the lower 48 states and the District of Columbia during the 1975/76 season dominated by A/H3N2/Victoria strain

Usage

usflu

Format

A data frame with 49 rows and 7 variables:

State

State number

Acronym

State code

Pop

Population size

Latitude

Latitude

Longitude

Longitude

Start

Week of start of epidemic

Peak

Week of peak of epidemic

Source

Viboud C, Bjornstad ON, Smith DL, Simonsen L, Miller MA, Grenfell BT (2006) Synchrony, waves, and spatial hierarchies in the spread of influenza. Science 312: 447-451. doi.org/10.1126/science.1125237.