ferrari {epimdr2}

Ferrari et al. 2005 outbreak data.

Description

The incidence aggregated by serial interval of a number of outbreaks studied by Ferrari et al. 2005.

Usage

ferrari

Format

A data frame with 15 rows and 7 variables:

Eboladeaths00

Number of deaths from ebola during the 2000 Uganda outbreak

Ebolacases00

Number of cases of ebola during the 2000 Uganda outbreak

Ebolacases95

Number of cases of ebola during the 1995 DRC outbreak

FMDfarms

Number of farms infected with FMD during the 2000-01 UK outbreak

HogCholera

Number of cases of swine fever in pigs in the 1997-98 outbreak in the Netherlands

SarsHk

Number of cases of SARS in Hong Kong during the 2003 outbreak

SarsSing

Number of cases of SARS in Singapore during the 2003 outbreak

Source

Ferrari et al. (2005) Estimation and inference of R-0 of an infectious pathogen by a removal method. Mathematical Biosciences 198: 14-26. <doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2005.08.002>