About the Authors

Shlomit Paz

Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Dan Malkinson

Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Manfred S. Green

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Gil Tsioni

Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Anna Papa

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Kostas Danis

Affiliation Hellenic Centre of Disease Prevention & Control, Athens, Greece

Anca Sirbu

Affiliation National Center for Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases, Bucharest, Romania

Cornelia Ceianu

Affiliation Cantacuzino National Institute for Research and Development in Microbiology and Immunology, Bucharest, Romania

Krisztalovics Katalin

Affiliation National Center for Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary

Emőke Ferenczi

Affiliation National Center for Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary

Herve Zeller

Affiliation European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

Jan C. Semenza

Jan.Semenza@ecdc.europa.eu

Affiliation European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP JCS. Performed the experiments: SP DM MSG GT. Analyzed the data: SP DM MSG GT JCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP KD AS CC KK EF HZ. Wrote the paper: SP JCS.