Exploring the Birthday Week Effect on Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in Yunnan Province, China, From 2008 to 2022: Surveillance Data Analysis

Pei Jiang   ^{1 *} , MM ;   Xiangyu Yan   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Tongjian Cai   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Longxin Huang   ⁴ ;   Zhenzhong Liu   ¹ , PhD ;   Linhui Hao   ⁵ , BMed ;   Tian Huang   ⁵ , MPH ;   Haijun Yang   ⁶ , PhD ;   Min Xu   ⁷ , BMed ;   Wenhui Shi   ⁸ , BMed ;   Tiejun Shui   ⁵ , MPH

¹ School of Public Health, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

² School of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

³ Department of Epidemiology, College of Preventive Medicine, Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, China

⁴ School of Clinical Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

⁵ Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming, China

⁶ Yan'An Hospital of Kunming City, Kunming, China

⁷ Hospital of Xi Zang Medicine, Lhasa, China

⁸ Lanke Medical Technology Nanjing Research Institution, Nanjing, China

*these authors contributed equally