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What's Going on with the West Nile Virus?
Annotated List of Websites with Information about the West Nile Virus and
Methods for Vector Control on Fire Island
Because of the rapid evolution of new information and
understanding about WNV, users should be sure to check the date of web
postings and updates!
 | Center for Disease
Control (CDC) (a Federal Agency that is part of the US Department
of Health and Human Services) is an excellent information hub, but it helps to
have several points of entry to learn about all their resources. |
From CDC's general information search page
(http://www.cdc.gov/search.htm),
enter search terms (e.g., West Nile Virus), to generate a listing with links
to relevant documents.
For summary information on West Nile Virus and other diseases, click on
"Health Topics A to Z" which will bring you to URL
http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm and to a hyperlinked listing of
diseases.
Or you can choose "State Health Department Searching,"
(http://search.cdc.gov/shd/search2.htm),
which enables searching of documents and resources produced by all the State
Departments of Health, and also some international sources.
The CDC's MMWR ("Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report")
(http://www2.cdc.gov/mmwr/)
is targetted to health care practitioners and researchers. Since Fall 1999,
the MMWR has periodically featured brief updates on WNV, with scientific
references.
The CDC Division for Infectious Diseases website
(http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/dvbid.htm)
is a direct route to CDC infectious disease summaries, with information
about transmission, vectors, and control.
Relevant links from this site include:
"Domestic arboviral encephalitides"
(http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/arbor/arboinfo.htm)
"Special Alerts and Links"
(http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/alerts.htm)
| New York State
Department of Health has posted the draft "New York State West Nile
Virus Response Plan"
(http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/westnile/index.htm). The Response
Plan contains information about how the State and Local Health Units plan to
prevent and respond to future outbreaks of West Nile Virus. The plan also
contains information about the pesticides proposed for West Nile Virus vector
(mosquito) control. |
| Wildlife
Conservation Society is an NGO that operates five public wildlife
facilities in New York City (including the Bronx Zoo). Pathologists at WCS
played an important role in identifying West Nile Virus as the causative
disease agent in the 1999 outbreak. From the WCS homepage
(http://www.wcs.org/search/),
click on "Search" and enter "West Nile Virus" to read articles from their
Wildlife Conservation Magazine Online.. |
| "The Crow
Connection" is written by
Dr.
Kevin McGowan, an ornithologist with the Cornell University Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Dr. McGowan does research on the behavioral
ecology of crows. His website
(http://cumv.bio.cornell.edu/mcgowan/westnile.htm) contains full text of
"The Crow Connection," and other information about the role of birds in
transmitting and hosting West Nile virus. |
| Before the New York
Metro Area Outbreak. A broader context for incidence of West Nile
Virus is provided in a summary by Zdenek Hubalek and Jiri Halouzka. 1999. West
Nile Fever: a Reemerging Mosquito-Borne Viral Disease in Europe. Emerging
Infectious Diseases 5 (5 September-October): 643-650. Full text:
html (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/hubalek.htm) and
pdf (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/pdf/hubalek.pdf). |
Updated
March 20, 2000
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
| Statement
by Roger Nasci, Ph.D., Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National
Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Department of Health & Human Services, to the New York State Assembly, 17
December 1999 |
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"West-Nile Fever: A Re-emerging Mosquito-Borne Viral Disease in Europe,"
Emerging Infectious Diseases 5:5 (10/31/99) |
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CDC's Morbidity & Mortality Report: Update: West
Nile-like Encephalitis-New York, 1999 (10/8/99) |
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CEC Confirms West Nile-like Virus as Cause of Encephalitis Outbreak in New
York (10/5/99) |
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CDC's Morbidity & Mortality Report: West Nile-like
Virus-New York, 1999 (10/1/99) |
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CDC Answers Your Questions About West Nile Encephalitis (10/1/99) |
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Information on Arboviral Encephalitides (9/98) |
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Guidelines for Arbovirus Surveillance Programs in the U.S. (PDF file) (4/93) |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
New Jersey Department of Health & Senior Services
New York City Department of Health
New York State Department of Health
News Media
Other Links
http://biology.usgs.gov/mosquito/mosquito.htm
Last updated April 11, 2000
  
Revised: 11/09/2002
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