TY - JOUR AU - Eidson, Millicent AU - Miller, Jim AU - Kramer, Laura AU - Cherry, Bryan AU - Hagiwara, Yoichiro T1 - Dead Crow Densities and Human Cases of West Nile Virus, New York State, 2000 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2001 VL - 7 IS - 4 SP - 662 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In 2000, Staten Island, New York, reported 10 human West Nile virus cases and high densities of dead crows. Surrounding counties with <2 human cases had moderate dead crow densities, and upstate counties with no human cases had low dead crow densities. Monitoring such densities may be helpful because this factor may be determined without the delays associated with specimen collection and testing. KW - West Nile virus KW - West Nile fever KW - encephalitis KW - arbovirus KW - birds KW - epidemiology KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid0704.017411 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/4/01-7411_article ER - End of Reference