Enhancing West Nile Virus Surveillance, United States
Open Access
- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 10 (6) , 1129-1133
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1006.030457
Abstract
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.Keywords
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