Achieving Operational Hydrologic Monitoring of Mosquitoborne Disease

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Shaman, Jeffrey ; Day, Jonathan F.
• Description:
  Mosquitoes and mosquitoborne disease transmission are sensitive to hydrologic variability. If local hydrologic conditions can be monitored or modeled at the scales at which these conditions affect the population dynamics of vector mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit, a means for monitoring or modeling mosquito populations and mosquitoborne disease transmission may be realized. We review how hydrologic conditions have been associated with mosquito abundances and mosquitoborne disease transmission and discuss the advantages of different measures of hydrologic variability. We propose that the useful application of any measure of hydrologic conditions requires additional consideration of the scales for both the hydrologic measurement and the vector control interventions that will be used to mitigate an outbreak of vectorborne disease. Our efforts to establish operational monitoring of St. Louis encephalitis virus and West Nile virus transmission in Florida are also reviewed.
• Subjects:
  • Animals
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
  • Culicidae
  • Encephalitis, St. Louis
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Humans
  • Rain
  • West Nile Fever
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 11(9):1343-1350.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/15887/cdc_15887_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 482.00 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7033777a686a4598e96ec8612b105390481004bea7dfa031a834899e9c9fcc9a