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Spatial Patterns of Dengue Incidence in Nepal During Record Outbreaks

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Dengue, which was first reported as a travel case in Nepal in 2004, was initially confined to the lower plains but has spread to higher elevations. Large outbreaks in 2022 and 2023, reached every district. We calculated the district-wise incidence for 2022 and 2023 by digitizing case data from Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population […]

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EPI Research Day 2024

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UF Geography was well represented at this year’s Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) Research Day. Simrik Bhandari, a first year Masters student working in the Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation (QDEC) lab, presented a poster on the spatial patterns of dengue incidence in Nepal.   Gavriella Hecht, a second-year PhD student in the Quantitative Disease Ecology […]

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