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A Nice Day for an Infection? Weather Conditions and Social Contact Patterns Relevant to Influenza Transmission

A Nice Day for an Infection? Weather Conditions and Social Contact Patterns Relevant to Influenza Transmission

Although there is no doubt that significant morbidity and mortality occur during annual influenza epidemics, the role of contextual circumstances, which catalyze seasonal influenza transmission, remains unclear. Weather conditions are believed to affect virus survival, efficiency of transmission and host immunity, but seasonality may also be driven by a tendency …