About the Authors

Chuin-Shee Shang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Tai Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chi-Tai Fang, Chung-Ming Liu, Chwan-Chuen King

chwanchuen@gmail.com (C-CK); fangct@ntu.edu.tw (C-TF)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Ming Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chi-Tai Fang, Chung-Ming Liu, Chwan-Chuen King

Affiliations Global Change Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tzai-Hung Wen

Affiliation Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kun-Hsien Tsai

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chwan-Chuen King

Contributed equally to this work with: Chi-Tai Fang, Chung-Ming Liu, Chwan-Chuen King

chwanchuen@gmail.com (C-CK); fangct@ntu.edu.tw (C-TF)

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-SS C-TF. Analyzed the data: C-SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: C-ML. Wrote the paper: C-SS C-TF. Revised the text: C-CK. Directed the use of statistics: C-TF. Helped construct the discussion: C-TF. Finalized the paper: C-TF. Directed meteorological analysis: C-ML. Data interpretation: C-ML. Contributed to the discussion: C-ML T-HW. Created the geographic figure: T-HW. Contributed information and ideas related to entomology and epidemiology: K-HT.