Remote sensing of climatic anomalies and West Nile virus incidence in the northern Great Plains of the United States.

The northern Great Plains (NGP) of the United States has been a hotspot of West Nile virus (WNV) incidence since 2002. Mosquito ecology and the transmission of vector-borne disease are influenced by multiple environmental factors, and climatic variability is an important driver of inter-annual varia...

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Main Authors: Ting-Wu Chuang, Michael C Wimberly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3465277?pdf=render