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. 2020 Aug 17;10:13874. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-70593-y

Table 2.

Quantitative translation of weather impact on Campylobacter cases in any municipality in the Nordic countries.

Scenario Number of cases Additional cases % change
Normal 16 n.a. n.a.
1 °C increase in mean temperature 18 2 13
1 mm increase in precipitation during the summer 22 6 38
One additional heat wavea in the summer 14 -2 -13
One additional heavy precipitationb event in the summer 24 8 50

The hypothetical situation where one scenario event takes place in any municipality in a given week, and the resulting number of (additional) Campylobacter cases the following week because of this event.

aHeat wave: three consecutive days with temperatures exceeding 99th percentile of the daily maximum temperature from 2000 to 2015.

bHeavy precipitation: a day with precipitation exceeding 95th percentile of daily precipitation from 2000 to 2015.