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Contagious disease data for US states
Description
Yearly counts for Hepatitis A, Measles, Mumps, Pertussis, Polio, Rubella, and Smallpox for US states. Original data courtesy of Tycho Project (http://www.tycho.pitt.edu/).
Usage
us_contagious_diseases
Format
An object of class "data.frame".
Details
disease. A factor containing disease names.
state. A factor containing state names.
year.
weeks_reporting. Number of weeks counts were reported that year.
count. Total number of reported cases.
population. State population, interpolated for non-census years.
Source
References
Willem G. van Panhuis, John Grefenstette, Su Yon Jung, Nian Shong Chok, Anne Cross, Heather Eng, Bruce Y Lee, Vladimir Zadorozhny, Shawn Brown, Derek Cummings, Donald S. Burke. Contagious Diseases in the United States from 1888 to the present. NEJM 2013; 369(22): 2152-2158.
Examples
head(us_contagious_diseases)