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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 538-541Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.091216
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- Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Disease, Food and Health Bureau, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [HK-09-04-01]
- US National Institutes of Health Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study program [1 U54 GM088558]
- Hong Kong University Grants Committee [AoE/M-12/06]
- Fogarty International Center [3R01TW008246-01S1]
- Fogarty International Center and the Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security
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In Hong Kong, kindergartens and primary schools were closed when local transmission of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 was identified. Secondary schools closed for summer vacation shortly afterwards. By fitting a model of reporting and transmission to case data, we estimated that transmission was reduced approximate to 25% when secondary schools closed.
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