Surveillance: Mosquito as Indicator (June04 EID)

Enhancing West Nile Virus Surveillance, United States.
John S. Brownstein, Theodore R. Holford, and Durland Fish.
Emerging Infectious Diseases. June 2004.
Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no6/03-0457.htm

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.

The authors are with the Yale University School of Medicine, New
Haven, Connecticut, USA

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