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The epidemic curve for mumps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Povl Heiberg
Affiliation:
Director, Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen
Helge Petersen
Affiliation:
Director, Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen
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The extensive epidemic of mumps which prevailed in Copenhagen in the winter of 1941–2 will presumably serve to establish whether Helge Petersen's (1941) general formula for epidemic curves for direct infectious diseases applies to mumps.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

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Petersen, H. (1941). Acta med. scand. 107, 282, 358.CrossRefGoogle Scholar