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SUBMITTER: Cortes MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5894074 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of infectious diseases 20180401 9
Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus harbored by bats and lethal to humans. Bat-to-human spillovers occur every winter in Bangladesh. However, there is significant heterogeneity in the number of spillovers detected by district and year that remains unexplained. We analyzed data from all 57 spillovers during 2007-2013 and found that temperature differences explained 36% of the year-to-year variation in the total number of spillovers each winter and that distance to surveillance hospitals explained 45% ...[more]