4 papers
Religious Festivals and Influenza
Alice P. Y. Chiu, Qianying Lin, Daihai He
Objectives Influenza outbreaks have been widely studied. However, the patterns between influenza and religious festivals remained unexplored. This study examined the patterns of in…
Patterns of Influenza Vaccination Coverage in the United States from 2009 to 2015
Alice P. Y. Chiu, Duo Yu, Jonathan Dushoff +1
Background: Globally, influenza is a major cause of morbidity, hospitalization and mortality. Influenza vaccination has shown substantial protective effectiveness in the United Sta…
Increasing Trends of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) and Dengue in Hong Kong
Xiujuan Tang, Shi Zhao, Alice P. Y. Chiu +3
Background: Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is a common type of severe acute paralytic neuropathy and associated with other virus infections such as dengue fever and Zika. This study…
Prevention and control of Zika fever as a mosquito-borne and sexually transmitted disease
Daozhou Gao, Yijun Lou, Daihai He +4
The ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic poses a major global public health emergency. It is known that ZIKV is spread by \textit{Aedes} mosquitoes, recent studies show that ZIKV can…