Quantifying the impact of school holidays and week-ends on the spread of influenza-like-illness: a multi-scale approach Hasselt University
It is known that children fuel the onset of a flu epidemic, and that their social and mobility patterns vary significantly between school term and periods of school closure. School holidays may therefore have a considerable impact on the spread of a flu epidemic. The quantification of such phenomenon would provide a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of flu spread in a population and also offer important information and guidelines ...