Data and analysis for: "Persistent Spatial Clustering and Predictors of Pediatric La Crosse Virus Neuroinvasive Disease Risk in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina, 2003–2020"

This is the initial release of the data and code corresponding to the manuscript submitted to PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Please refer to the README.md file for a description of the contents of this repository and how to use them. The README file can be opened with a text editor, or viewed directly in the GitHub repository. The data and code are provided within a project directory with a reproducible R package library for ease and accuracy of reproducibility. 

Ethics Approval

This study was approved by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Institutional Review Board (UTK IRB-22-07079-XP) and the Tennessee Department of Health Institutional Review Board (TDH IRB 2021-0314). Data provided here is de-identified and aggregated (both temporally and spatially) to protect the privacy of individuals included in the study, in concordance with IRB and Data Use Agreements.