TY - JOUR AU - Singh, David E. AU - Marinescu, Maria-Cristina AU - Carretero, Jesus AU - Delgado-Sanz, Concepcion AU - Gomez-Barroso, Diana AU - Larrauri, Amparo PY - 2020 DA - 2020/04/05 TI - Evaluating the impact of the weather conditions on the influenza propagation JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 265 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Predicting the details of how an epidemic evolves is highly valuable as health institutions need to better plan towards limiting the infection propagation effects and optimizing their prediction and response capabilities. Simulation is a cost- and time-effective way of predicting the evolution of the infection as the joint influence of many different factors: interaction patterns, personal characteristics, travel patterns, meteorological conditions, previous vaccination, etc. The work presented in this paper extends EpiGraph, our influenza epidemic simulator, by introducing a meteorological model as a modular component that interacts with the rest of EpiGraph’s modules to refine our previous simulation results. Our goal is to estimate the effects of changes in temperature and relative humidity on the patterns of epidemic influenza based on data provided by the Spanish Influenza Sentinel Surveillance System (SISSS) and the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET). SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-04977-w DO - 10.1186/s12879-020-04977-w ID - Singh2020 ER -