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Travelling waves in the occurrence of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Thailand

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  • Derek A.T. Cummings

    (Johns Hopkins University
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

  • Rafael A. Irizarry

    (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

  • Norden E. Huang

    (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

  • Timothy P. Endy

    (United States Army Medical Research Institute in Infectious Disease)

  • Ananda Nisalak

    (Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences)

  • Kumnuan Ungchusak

    (Ministry of Public Health)

  • Donald S. Burke

    (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Abstract

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne virus that infects 50–100 million people each year1. Of these infections, 200,000–500,000 occur as the severe, life-threatening form of the disease, dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF)2. Large, unanticipated epidemics of DHF often overwhelm health systems3. An understanding of the spatial–temporal pattern of DHF incidence would aid the allocation of resources to combat these epidemics. Here we examine the spatial–temporal dynamics of DHF incidence in a data set describing 850,000 infections occurring in 72 provinces of Thailand during the period 1983 to 1997. We use the method of empirical mode decomposition4 to show the existence of a spatial–temporal travelling wave in the incidence of DHF. We observe this wave in a three-year periodic component of variance, which is thought to reflect host–pathogen population dynamics5,6. The wave emanates from Bangkok, the largest city in Thailand, moving radially at a speed of 148 km per month. This finding provides an important starting point for detecting and characterizing the key processes that contribute to the spatial–temporal dynamics of DHF in Thailand.

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  • Derek A.T. Cummings & Rafael A. Irizarry & Norden E. Huang & Timothy P. Endy & Ananda Nisalak & Kumnuan Ungchusak & Donald S. Burke, 2004. "Travelling waves in the occurrence of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Thailand," Nature, Nature, vol. 427(6972), pages 344-347, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:427:y:2004:i:6972:d:10.1038_nature02225
    DOI: 10.1038/nature02225
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