Weekly number of reported disease cases caused by Escherichia coli in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) from January 2001 to May 2013, excluding cases of EHEC and HUS.
Usage
ecoli
Format
A data frame with variables year and week giving the year and calendar week of observation, and with a variable cases giving the number of reported cases in the respective week.
The data are provided with kind permission of the Robert Koch Institute. Further details and terms of usage are given at https://survstat.rki.de. More data reported under the German Infectious Diseases Protection Act is available via the SurvStat@RKI web application linked above.
See Also
campy, ehec, influenza, measles in this package, polio in package gamlss.data