Comments for PLOS Currents Outbreaks http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 Comment on The Ebola Crisis and the Corresponding Public Behavior: A System Dynamics Approach by Nasser Sharareh http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/the-ebola-crisis-and-the-corresponding-public-behavior-a-system-dynamics-approach/#comment-2895 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:24:03 +0000 http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/?post_type=article&p=67692#comment-2895 We have created a user-friendly interface that people can play with our simulation model and apply their own changes to the model.
This tool is available at:
forio.com/app/nsharar1/ebola-crisis

]]> Comment on The Ebola Crisis and the Corresponding Public Behavior: A System Dynamics Approach by Nasser Sharareh http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/the-ebola-crisis-and-the-corresponding-public-behavior-a-system-dynamics-approach/#comment-2740 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:30:40 +0000 http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/?post_type=article&p=67692#comment-2740 Thank you for your comment.
Please email me for further collaborations ([email protected]), or please give me your email address.
Thank you,
Nasser Sharareh,

]]> Comment on The Ebola Crisis and the Corresponding Public Behavior: A System Dynamics Approach by rblew http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/the-ebola-crisis-and-the-corresponding-public-behavior-a-system-dynamics-approach/#comment-2739 Sat, 05 Nov 2016 01:57:07 +0000 http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/?post_type=article&p=67692#comment-2739 If you are going to pursue this topic of behavior in the context of biodisaster, I have a large database available. Part of this is now posted on a public website at http://parademic.typepad.com. The previous 5 years are behind a firewall at the APAN Pandemic and Infectious Disease Working Group, but I still have access.

Robert Blew

]]> Comment on On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States by monaghan http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-seasonal-occurrence-and-abundance-of-the-zika-virus-vector-mosquito-aedes-aegypti-in-the-contiguous-united-states/#comment-2697 Sun, 14 Aug 2016 15:55:09 +0000 http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/?post_type=article&p=66303#comment-2697 Good question. Since we published this paper, Hahn et al. (1) published updated U.S. county-level records of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus presence for the past ~20 years. Based on their data, four counties in North Carolina have reported Aedes aegypti presence, though each occurrence was only reported in one year (i.e, to the best of our knowledge the observations have not been repeated in any county in NC as of yet). The four counties are:

Chatham (year 2004)
Hoke ( year 2003)
Scotland (year 2006)
Swain ( year 2002)

The report in western NC you inquired about is Swain (I believe this is the same record the dot on our map is based on). Asheville is located in a different county (Buncombe), so I am not certain which town the Swain report is from.

(1) Hahn, M. B., Eisen, R. J., Eisen, L., Boegler, K. A., Moore, C. G., McAllister, J., … & Mutebi, J. P. (2016). Reported Distribution of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus in the United States, 1995-2016 (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, tjw072.

]]> Comment on On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States by simunye36 http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-seasonal-occurrence-and-abundance-of-the-zika-virus-vector-mosquito-aedes-aegypti-in-the-contiguous-united-states/#comment-2694 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:04:45 +0000 http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/?post_type=article&p=66303#comment-2694 Great article! In Fig S1, the red dot representing Aedes Aegypti in Western North Carolina…what city is that in? Is that Asheville?

]]> Comment on On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States by monaghan http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-seasonal-occurrence-and-abundance-of-the-zika-virus-vector-mosquito-aedes-aegypti-in-the-contiguous-united-states/#comment-2660 Sun, 29 May 2016 22:05:17 +0000 http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/?post_type=article&p=66303#comment-2660 No, we did not simulate Zika virus transmission in this study.

]]> Comment on On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States by monaghan http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-seasonal-occurrence-and-abundance-of-the-zika-virus-vector-mosquito-aedes-aegypti-in-the-contiguous-united-states/#comment-2659 Sun, 29 May 2016 22:04:10 +0000 http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/?post_type=article&p=66303#comment-2659 The Aedes aegypti seasonality results are applicable at approximately the metropolitan scale, for each of the 50 cities for which we performed model simulations of mosquitoes. To explain, we interpolated daily gridded meteorological fields to the published coordinates for each city (latitude and longitude — shown in Table 1), and then used each resulting weather time series to drive mosquito life cycles models and simulate Aedes aegypti seasonal abundance. The model results do not account for microclimatic variability across each city, but rather represent the ‘average’ climatic conditions in each city. For cities that have substantial climatic variability across them — e.g., due to mountainous terrain or marine effects — the results may be less representative for suburban areas at higher elevations or far inland from water bodies. The results are not considered valid outside of cities, in part because Aedes aegypti favors urban areas.

]]> Comment on On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States by michaelz http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-seasonal-occurrence-and-abundance-of-the-zika-virus-vector-mosquito-aedes-aegypti-in-the-contiguous-united-states/#comment-2658 Sun, 29 May 2016 16:55:52 +0000 http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/?post_type=article&p=66303#comment-2658 Are there projections of number of cases based on this data?

]]> Comment on On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States by michaelz http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-seasonal-occurrence-and-abundance-of-the-zika-virus-vector-mosquito-aedes-aegypti-in-the-contiguous-united-states/#comment-2654 Wed, 25 May 2016 15:43:47 +0000 http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/?post_type=article&p=66303#comment-2654 We are developing a zip code level data set from this information. What is the typical radius from city to project? use MSA perhaps? Or is this study just applicable to zip codes within a city?

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