Nowcast Predictions for Chikungunya Virus-Infected Travelers

data.cdc.gov | Last Updated 21 Feb 2018

Interactive visualization: http://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/modeling/index.html. This dataset contains monthly predictions for the spread of chikungunya virus transmission. A full description of the methods is available at: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0104915.

Tags: chikungunya, americas, travelers, predictions

This dataset has the following 6 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeDescriptionSample Values
locationlocationtext
monthmonthcalendar_date
pInfectedTravelerAvepinfectedtraveleravenumber
pInfectedTravelerMininfectedtravelerminnumberThe 2.5th percentile (lower bound of the middle 95th percentile) of the distribution of pInfectedTraveler estimates.
pInfectedTravelerMaxinfectedtravelermaxnumberThe 97.5th percentile (upper bound of the middle 95th percentile) of the distribution of pInfectedTraveler estimates.
localcaseslocalcasesnumberIf cases were reported in that month in that location: 1, otherwise: 0