Background: An epidemic can spread rapidly among a large number of people in a community within a short period of time. Some infectious diseases, including influenza, hand, foot and mouth disease, dengue and meningitis, are temporally limited by variations in the meteorological factors, such as sunshine, temperature, humidity, rainfall, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and so on. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the behavior of outbreak of these infectious diseases based on meteorological factors. Objective: Review various epidemic models related to meteorological factors. Results: We dis...
