Explaining Seasonal Fluctuations of Measles in Niger Using Nighttime Lights Imagery

Author:

Bharti N.12,Tatem A. J.345,Ferrari M. J.67,Grais R. F.89,Djibo A.10,Grenfell B. T.125

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

2. Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

3. Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.

4. Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.

5. Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

6. Biology Department, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

7. Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

8. Epicentre, 75011 Paris, France.

9. Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

10. Direction Générale de la Santé Publique (DGSP), Ministère de la Santé, Niamey, Niger.

Abstract

Changes in human population density as measured by satellite images of nighttime lights predict measles.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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