Forecasting the West Nile Virus in the United States: An Extensive Novel Data Streams–Based Time Series Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling of Related Digital Searching Behavior

Abdulla Watad   ^{1, 2, 3, 4} , MD ;   Samaa Watad   ⁵ , BSc ;   Naim Mahroum   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD ;   Kassem Sharif   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD ;   Howard Amital   ^{1, 2, 3} , MHA, MD ;   Nicola Luigi Bragazzi   ^{6 *} , MPH, PhD, MD ;   Mohammad Adawi   ^{7, 8, 9 *} , MHA, MD

¹ Department of Medicine B, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

² Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

³ Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

⁴ NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Section of Musculoskeletal Disease, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Chapel Allerton Hospital, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

⁵ Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

⁶ Department of Health Sciences, Postgraduate School of Public Health, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

⁷ The Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Zefat, Israel

⁸ Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Zefat, Israel

⁹ Ziv Medical Center, Zefat, Israel

*these authors contributed equally