  This open-access dataset provides consistent records of air travel volumes
between 205 airport catchments in Colombia and the associated number of
reported human cases of Zika virus within these catchments during the arbovirus
outbreak between October 2015 and September 2016. We associated in this dataset
the monthly air travel volumes provided by the Colombian Civil Aviation
Authority (AEROCIVIL) with the reported human cases of Zika Virus published by
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Our methodology consists of
geocoding all the reported airports and identifying the catchment of each
airport using the municipalities' boundaries since reported human cases of Zika
Virus are available at the municipal level. In addition, we calculated the
total population at risk in each airport catchment by combining the total
population count in a catchment with the environmental suitability of the Aedes
aegypti mosquito, the vector for the Zika virus. We separated the monthly air
travel volumes into domestic and international based on the location of the
origin airport. The current dataset includes the total air travel volumes of
23,539,364 passengers on domestic flights and 11,592,197 on international ones.
We validated our dataset by comparing the monthly aggregated air travel volumes
between airport catchments to those predicted by the gravity model. We hope the
novel dataset will provide a resource to researchers studying the role of human
mobility in the spread of mosquito-borne diseases and modeling disease spread
in realistic networks.
