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West Nile Virus

Crow Deaths as a Sentinel Surveillance System for West Nile Virus in the Northeastern United States, 1999

Millicent Eidson,* Nicholas Komar,† Faye Sorhage,‡ Randall Nelson,§ Tom Talbot,* Farzad Mostashari,¶ Robert McLean,# and the West Nile Virus Avian Mortality Surveillance Group (1)
*New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; ‡New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Trenton, New Jersey, USA; §Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; ¶New York City Department of Health, New York City, New York, USA; #National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Figure 3. Number of dead crow sightings in New York State and number of West Nile (WN) virus-positive birds in New York State, New Jersey, and Connecticut, by week, June 27-November 30, 1999. Not included are three WN virus-positive birds in New York and New Jersey without definitive information on date collected.

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Figure 3. Number of dead crow sightings in New York State and number of West Nile (WN) virus-positive birds in New York State, New Jersey, and Connecticut, by week, June 27-November 30, 1999. Not included are three WN virus-positive birds in New York and New Jersey without definitive information on date collected.
 


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