Chain size data for borealpox

Mooring et al. (2025) report on 6 singleton cases of borealpox from 2020 through 2023 and Springer et al. (2017) report on the first known case of borealpox, for a total of 7 observed cases, all of which have been singletons (i.e., no epidemiologic links between borealpox cases have ever been identified).

data(borealpox)

Format

Vector of all chain sizes.

Source

https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaf497

References

Mooring EQ, Rogers J, Whitehill F, Werle Z, Gigante CM, et al. (2025) "Six Cases of Borealpox and Evidence of a Zoonotic Source-Alaska, 2020-2023." Clinical Infectious Diseases ciaf497. Epub ahead of print.

Springer YP, Hsu CH, Werle ZR, Olson LE, Cooper MP, et al. (2017) "Novel Orthopoxvirus Infection in an Alaska Resident." Clinical Infectious Diseases 64(12):1737-1741.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
data(borealpox)
model <- compile_nbbp_homogenous()
fit_nbbp_homogenous_bayes(borealpox, model)
} # }