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Volume 14, Number 10—October 2008
Research

Ecologic Factors Associated with West Nile Virus Transmission, Northeastern United States

Heidi E. Brown1, James E. Childs, Maria A. Diuk-Wasser, and Durland FishComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA;

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Figure 2

A) Epidemic curve of mean incidence (log+1 transformed) of West Nile virus disease in humans, by state, 1999–2006. The 4 states depicted are representative of the variation among the 8 states in the study area. CT, Connecticut; DE, Delaware; MD, Maryland; NY, New York. This graph shows the trend toward increasing incidence and a regional peak in 2003. NY seems to show a 2-year plateau with similar values for 2002 and 2003. B) Cumulative proportion of total cases for the 8 years also highlighting the 2003 regional peak but suggesting a spatial spread where cases started to rise earlier in NY than in states such as DE that were more distant from the epicenter.

Figure 2. A) Epidemic curve of mean incidence (log+1 transformed) of West Nile virus disease in humans, by state, 1999–2006. The 4 states depicted are representative of the variation among the 8 states in the study area. CT, Connecticut; DE, Delaware; MD, Maryland; NY, New York. This graph shows the trend toward increasing incidence and a regional peak in 2003. NY seems to show a 2-year plateau with similar values for 2002 and 2003. B) Cumulative proportion of total cases for the 8 years also highlighting the 2003 regional peak but suggesting a spatial spread where cases started to rise earlier in NY than in states such as DE that were more distant from the epicenter.

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1Current affiliation: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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