Absolute humidity modulates influenza survival, transmission, and seasonality

By Jeffrey Shaman, M. Kohn. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

1,047 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Epidemiology, Modeling and Simulation, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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In Epidemiology

1. Raymond Tellier
2. J. Tang
3. Jeffrey Shaman
4. A. Iwasaki
5. Marc Lipsitch

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1. Raymond Tellier
2. Cécile Viboud
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6. Edward L. Ionides

In Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• Absolute Humidity and the Seasonal Onset of Influenza in the Continental United States (2010, methodology): “Similarly, RH is highest in winter [11], but influenza onset is associated with low RH anomalies.”
• Aerosol transmission of influenza A virus: a review of new studies (2009, background): “…noting the agreement between several studies that low humidity is associated with prolonged infectivity persistence of aerosolized influenza virus but that the decay accelerates at higher humidity, suggest that humidification measures for infection control may be warranted (Shaman & Kohn 2009).”
• Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections. (2020, background): “It is assumed that temperature and humidity modulate the viability of viruses by affecting the properties of viral surface proteins and lipid membrane (12, 55).”
• Evidence that Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Deaths (2020, background): “influenza virus to survive longer outside the body than under warmer conditions [49], [50], [51].”
• The effect of environmental parameters on the survival of airborne infectious agents (2009, background): “Most recently, Shaman & Kohn (2009) revisited the possibility that successful airborne virus transmission and therefore airborne virus survival was more closely correlated to absolute rather than RH.”
• Sentinel Surveillance of Influenza-Like-Illness in Two Cities of the Tropical Country of Ecuador: 2006–2010 (2011, background): “In warm humid environments, contact appears to be more important for influenza transmission, but aerosol transmission may become important in cool dry environments as shown by studies of guinea pigs separated in cages that demonstrate the risk of airborne infection can be calculated by measuring env”