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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 9(21), p. 1651-1653, 2015

DOI: 10.3201/eid2109.141030

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Randomness of Dengue Outbreaks on the Equator

Journal article published in 2015 by Yirong Chen, Alex R. Cook ORCID, Alisa X. L. Lim
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Abstract

A simple mathematical model without seasonality indicated that the apparently chaotic dengue epidemics in Singapore have characteristics similar to epidemics resulting from chance. Randomness as a sufficient condition for patterns of dengue epidemics in equatorial regions calls into question existing explanations for dengue outbreaks there.