Volume 9, Number 6, June 2003

Dead Bird Clusters as an Early Warning System for West Nile Virus Activity

Farzad Mostashari,* Martin Kulldorff,† Jessica J. Hartman,* James R. Miller,* and Varuni Kulasekera†
*New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, USA; and †University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA

Figure 1. Dead bird cluster surveillance system. SAS, SAS statistical package (SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC); ESRI, Environmental Systems Research Institute; SQL, structured query language.

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