VP 516/CHLH 516
Readings for March 14, 2006
Surveillance for Arboviruses - Dr. Linn Haramis
Other
than the first readings which describes the methods used for arbovirus
surveillance, the rest of the readings are short news releases and responses
to specific events. They demonstrate the way epidemiological principles are
applied in the field (and subject to real-life constraints).
1) CDC Publication:
Guidelines
for WNV Surveillance in the United States. Pages 1- 25
2) IDPH Healthbeat fact Sheets.
Mosquitoes
Arboviral
encephalitis
3) Nasci RS & Chet Moore CG.
Planning for Emergency Mosquito
Surveillance and Control. Wing Beats, Summer
1993.
4) IDPH News releases
2002
2005
5) Chapter 1 of
http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/pdf/mosquito-borne01.pdf
West Nile Virus
7)
http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/hb/hbwestnile.htm
8)
http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/press01/westnile.htm
9) http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/wnvtestimony2.htm
Background material (for reference
and background information):
1) Tsai TF. 1991.
Arboviral Infections in the United States.
Inf. Dis. Clin. N. Amer. 5: 73-101.
2) Varma MGR. 1989.
Mosquito borne virus diseases; Tick borne virus
diseases. In WHO/VBC/89.967. Geographical distribution
of arthropod-borne
diseases and their principal vectors. Pp. 35-44,
55-57.
3) Chin J. 2000. Control
of Communicable Diseases in Man, pp. 28-58