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Volume 7, Number 4—August 2001
THEME ISSUE
West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus

West Nile Virus Surveillance in Connecticut in 2000: An Intense Epizootic without High Risk for Severe Human Disease

James Hadler*Comments to Author , Randall Nelson*, Tara McCarthy*†, Theodore Andreadis‡, Mary Jane Lis§, Richard French¶, William Beckwith*, Donald Mayo*, Gary Archambault*, and Matthew Cartter*
Author affiliations: *Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; §Connecticut Department of Agriculture, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; ¶University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

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Table 1

Dead crow sightings per square mile per week, selected towns and counties, Connecticut, May-October, 2000

No. Sightings/
County Area (sq. mi.)a No. of Sightings sq. mi. Week
Fairfieldb 606 189 0.3 8/13 - 8/19
Fairfield 606 187 0.3 9/17 - 9/23
Fairfield 606 183 0.3 9/10 - 9/16
Fairfield 606 164 0.3 9/24 - 9/30
Fairfield 606 155 0.3 8/20 - 8/26
New Haven 606 84 0.1 9/3 - 9/9
Town (County)
Darien (FF) 12.9 29 2.2 8/13 - 8/19
Milford (NH) 22.6 39 1.7 9/3 - 9/9
Milford 22.6 38 1.7 9/10 - 9/16
Milford 22.6 35 1.5 8/20 - 8/26
Fairfield (FF) 30.0 32 1.3 9/17 - 9/23
Stamford (FF) 37.7 45 1.2 8/13 - 8/19
Stamford 37.7 45 1.2 8/20 - 8/26
Stamford 37.7 44 1.2 9/3 - 9/9
Serosurvey area (FF) 17.9 41 2.3 8/13 - 8/19

aSource: Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development. FF = Fairfield County; NH = New Haven.
bArea of Fairfield County = 625.9 square miles. However, one town did not submit logs and its area (19.8 square miles) is not included in the calculations.

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