Volume 6, Number 3—June 2000

Research

Using Remotely Sensed Data To Identify Areas at Risk for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome

Gregory E. Glass* , James E. Cheek†, Jonathan A. Patz*, Timothy M. Shields*, Timothy J. Doyle‡, Douglas A. Thoroughman†, Darcy K. Hunt†, Russell E. Enscore§, Kenneth L. Gage§, Charles Irland†, C. J. Peters¶, and Ralph Bryan§

Author affiliations: *The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; †Indian Health Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; §Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA; and ¶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Figure 3. Comparison of predicted HPS risk for 1993 (top) and 1996 (bottom) by satellite imagery taken in 1992 and 1995, respectively, in the study area. Low-risk areas are in dark blue and high-risk areas are in red and yellow. There was a significant reduction in predicted high-risk areas in 1996 compared with 1993.

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