Climatic factors and long-term trends of influenza-like illness rates in The Netherlands, 1970–2016
- Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht (Netherlands)
Highlights: • We studied the link between climatic factors and influenza-like illness (ILI) rate. • In the Netherlands, ILI rates dropped during 1970–2003, then started to rise again. • Weekly ILI count was inversely associated with humidity and temperature. • The early 2000s were a trend-reversal point for the climatic time series as well. • Seasonal average ILI rates and humidity (or temperature) were inversely correlated. Climatic factors affect the survival and transmissibility of respiratory viruses causing influenza-like illness (ILI), and we hypothesized that changes in absolute humidity and temperature may affect long-term trends of ILI incidence rate in temperate countries. We tested this hypothesis using ILI and meteorological time series in the Netherlands for the period 1970–2016.
- OSTI ID:
- 23110598
- Journal Information:
- Environmental Research, Journal Name: Environmental Research Vol. 167; ISSN ENVRAL; ISSN 0013-9351
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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