Volume 11, Number 9, September 2005

Dead Crow Density and West Nile Virus Monitoring, New York

Millicent Eidson,* Kate Schmit,* Yoichiro Hagiwara,* Madhu Anand,* P. Bryon Backenson,* Ivan Gotham,* and Laura Kramer*
*New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA

Figure 3. Dead crow densities (DCD, dead crows per square mile) and number of cases of human West Nile virus (WNV) disease, by week, 2002. Horizontal dashed line indicates DCD = 0.1. F, date that the first bird with confirmed WNV infection was found; R, date that the laboratory result of the first bird with WNV infection was reported.

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