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

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