Spatially Explicit Modeling of West Nile Virus Risk Using Environmental Data
Description:
West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging infectious disease that has widespread implications for public health practitioners across the world. Within a few years of its arrival in the United States the virus had spread across the North American continent. This research focuses on the development of a spatially explicit GIS-based predictive epidemiological model based on suitable environmental factors. We examined eleven commonly mapped environmental factors using both ordinary least squares regress…
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Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Kala, Abhishek K.
Partner:
UNT Libraries