Yellow Fever in Ghana: Historical Outbreak Cases and Locations, 1910-2022

Seth D. Judson and colleagues compiled data for the article 'Yellow fever in Ghana: Predicting emergence and ecology from historical outbreaks' published in PLOS Global Public Health in 2024. The collection includes annual case counts from 1910 to 2022, laboratory-confirmed outbreak locations, and district-level outbreak records. Data fields cover years, months, regions, districts, reported cases, deaths, suspected transmission cycles, and vaccination campaigns.

Use Cases

• Modeling the ecological niche of yellow fever transmission based on historical outbreak locations.
• Analyzing long-term trends in case fatality rates based on annual case and death data from 1910-2022.
• Mapping the spatial distribution of outbreaks at the district and regional level in Ghana.
• Studying the impact of reactive vaccination campaigns based on the vaccination.reactive field.

Strengths

• Includes a long temporal range of data, covering 112 years from 1910 to 2022.
• Contains multiple linked datasets providing case counts, geographic locations, and district-level outbreak details.
• Data is associated with a peer-reviewed research article published in 2024, providing methodological context.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent for some fields; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Seth D. Judson and co-authors, associated with the article in PLOS Global Public Health.

Collection Method

Compiled from a literature review and includes laboratory-confirmed occurrences.

Time Range

1910 to 2022

Geography

Ghana