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SUBMITTER: Wu JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3206396 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Joseph T JT Cowling Benjamin J BJ Lau Eric H Y EH Ip Dennis K M DK Ho Lai-Ming LM Tsang Thomas T Chuang Shuk-Kwan SK Leung Pak-Yin PY Lo Su-Vui SV Liu Shao-Haei SH Riley Steven S
Emerging infectious diseases 20100301 3
In Hong Kong, kindergartens and primary schools were closed when local transmission of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 was identified. Secondary schools closed for summer vacation shortly afterwards. By fitting a model of reporting and transmission to case data, we estimated that transmission was reduced approximately 25% when secondary schools closed. ...[more]