Journal Article

Spatial Analysis of West African Measles Data Set

Abstract

The spread of infectious diseases has been tied to movement of people across borders. Statistical data have shown that there are a lot of factors that can make a disease to break out in a given community or country. In this work we analyzed measles data set of West African countries and we found that there is a synchrony in outbreak of measles in countries sharing borders. Also, from our analysis, we discovered that vaccination has great effect on the number of reported cases.

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