ArticleiScience2020
Forcing Seasonality of Influenza-like Epidemics with Daily Solar Resonance.
Article in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of environmental parameters and their interactions on the spreading of SARS-CoV-2 in North Italy under different social restrictions. A new approach based on multivariate analysis.Environmental research · 2022Article
- UV and violet light can Neutralize SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity.Journal of photochemistry and photobiology · 2022Article
- Airborne magnetic nanoparticles may contribute to COVID-19 outbreak: Relationships in Greece and Iran.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Solar UV-B/A radiation is highly effective in inactivating SARS-CoV-2.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Predicting SARS-CoV-2 Weather-Induced Seasonal Virulence from Atmospheric Air Enthalpy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Seasonality of acute viral respiratory diseases is a well-known and yet not fully understood phenomenon. Several models have been proposed to explain the regularity of yearly recurring outbreaks and the phase differences observed at different latitudes on the Earth. Such models consider known internal causes, primarily the periodic emergence of new virus variants that evade the host immune response. Yet, this alone is generally unable to explain the regularity of recurrences and the observed phase differences. Here we show that seasonality of viral respiratory diseases, as well as its distribution with latitude on the Earth, can be fully explained by the virucidal properties of UV-B and UV-A solar photons through a daily, minute-scale, resonant forcing mechanism. Such an induced periodicity can last, virtually unperturbed, from tens to hundreds of cycles, and even in the presence of internal dynamics (host's loss of immunity) much slower than seasonal will, on a long period, generate seasonal oscillations.
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