Rapid GIS-based profiling of West Nile virus transmission: defining environmental factors associated with an urbansuburban outbreak in Northeast Ohio, USA
Human West Nile virus (WNV) infection was first detected in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, USA, in 2002. During that year’s extensive epidemic/epizootic among non-immune human and bird populations, the county experienced 155 cases of severe human West Nile neurological disease (WNND, incidence = 11.1 cases/...
Main Authors: | A. Desiree LaBeaud, Ann-Marie Gorman, Joe Koonce, Christopher Kippes, John McLeod, Joe Lynch, Timothy Gallagher, Charles H. King, Anna M. Mandalakas |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2008-05-01
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Series: | Geospatial Health |
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Online Access: | http://www.geospatialhealth.net/index.php/gh/article/view/245 |
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