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Effects of school closure on incidence of pandemic influenza in Alberta, Canada
  1. Beatrice Downie
  1. Correspondence to Dr Beatrice Downie, ST2, Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Pield Heath Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3NN, UK; beadownie{at}doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202054

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    This study uses data from the influenza pandemic in Alberta, Canada in 2009 to investigate whether incidence and transmission are affected by weather changes and school closure.

    During a 9-month period 35, 510 influenza tests were performed in Alberta, of which 19% tested positive for pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1). Using mathematical transmission modelling, …

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