Fig. 4
From: Epidemic dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus in current and future climates
Comparison with influenza results. Removing precipitation from our regression model and including a quadratic humidity term reveals a very similar response (a) to earlier work on influenza (b adapted from Tamerius et al.9, Fig 3a) suggesting potential similar mechanisms underlie the climate effect on the two diseases. Predicted minimum transmission for RSV occurs at 11.16 g/kg, with influenza found to be similarly 11–12 g/kg9. Tamerius et al. suggest precipitation may drive the right hand side of the humidity-influenza curve, as we find for RSV.
