Environmental Predictors of Human West Nile Virus Infections, Colorado
Open Access
- 1 November 2007
- journal article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 13 (11) , 1788-1790
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1311.070506
Abstract
To determine whether environmental surveillance of West Nile virus–positive dead birds, mosquito pools, equines, and sentinel chickens helped predict human cases in metropolitan Denver, Colorado, during 2003, we analyzed human surveillance data and environmental data. Birds successfully predicted the highest proportion of human cases, followed by mosquito pools, and equines.Keywords
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