Enhancing West Nile Virus Surveillance, United States

Brownstein, John S.; Holford, Theodore R.; Fish, Durland

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Enhancing West Nile Virus Surveillance, United States

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Jun 2004
By Brownstein, John S. ; Holford, Theodore R. ; Fish, Durland

File Language:

English

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Alternative Title:

Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Brownstein, John S. ; Holford, Theodore R. ; Fish, Durland
Description:

We provide a method for constructing a county-level West Nile virus risk map to serve as an early warning system for human cases. We also demonstrate that mosquito surveillance is a more accurate predictor of human risk than monitoring dead and infected wild birds.
Subjects:

Animals Bird Diseases Birds Culicidae Humans Incidence Models, Biological Risk Assessment West Nile Fever
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 10(6):1129-1133.
Document Type:

Journal Article
Place as Subject:

United States
Location:

North America
Volume:

10
Issue:

6
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:

urn:sha256:1dd79413c3bd6420952fb703b98ebe92bc85e23cd1028e6c5f4b11e3d3e4ff31
Download URL:

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14394/cdc_14394_DS1.pdf
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[PDF - 416.66 KB ]

File Language:

English

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