Volume 10, Number 8—August 2004
Research
West Nile Virus in California
Figure 4

Figure 4. Wild bird Flavivirus seroprevalence rates (Flavi pos %) in Coachella Valley during 2003. Shown are percentages of total serum samples that tested positive each month by enzyme immunoassay. Positives include infections caused by West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis.
1Procedures for the bleeding and husbandry of sentinel chickens were described in Protocol 9608 approved by the University of California, Davis, Animal Use and Care Administrative Advisory Committee.
2The collection, banding, and bleeding of wild birds were conducted under Protocol 9605 approved by the Animal Use and Care Administrative Advisory Committee of the University of California, Davis, California Resident Scientific Collection Permit 801049-02 by the State of California Department of Fish and Game, and Master Station Federal Bird Marking and Salvage Permit 22763 from the U.S. Geological Survey Bird Banding Laboratory.