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CEAH SET Spatial Analysis and Modeling

CEAH Spatial Epidemiology Team (SET) offers spatial analysis and data modeling expertise to meet VS' needs for focused information. Projects fall into two categories: invasive species, and disease ecology and epidemiology.

Invasive Species Studies

1. National Tick Survey

2. Cattle Fever Tick Strategic Plan

3. Role of Wildlife in the Ecology and Epidemiology of Cattle Fever
   Ticks in South Texas

   
   
4. Hair-loss Syndrome in Deer in the Pacific Northwest
   
   
5. Geographic Distribution of Equine Piroplasmosis and Anaplasmosis Vectors in the U.S.

Disease Ecology and Epidemiology

High-Path Avian Influenza

1. Spatial data support and analysis

2. Collaboration with National Surveillance Unit
   
   
3. Collaboration with National Wildlife Research Center

Low-Path Avian Influenza

1. Virus dissemination through depopulation

2. Virus movement by vehicles

Scrapie

1. Analyzing geographic patterns of slaughter samples, animal origins, and markets

Bovine tuberculosis

1. Analyzing spatial factors affecting the spread of infection from wildlife to cattle on Molokai Island, Hawaii

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (VEE) viruses

1. Ecology of enzootic VEE viruses in natural foci in Iquitos, Peru

2. Epidemiology of VEE virus
   infections in equids in
   southern Mexico

3. Distribution of Everglades
   virus in Florida

Brucellosis

1. Analyzing geographic patterns of slaughter samples, animal origins, and markets

Farm Animal Demographics Simulator

1. Simulates farm locations by commodity using spatial modeling methods.