Rainy with a chance of plague: Forecasting disease outbreaks from satellites

Future Virology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-229

  Glass, Gregory E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDITORIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METEOROLOGY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 34249288318     PISSN: 17460794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460794.2.3.225     Document Type: Editorial

References (4)

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3. Glass GE, Yates TL, Fine JB et al.: Satellite imagery characterizes local animal reservoir populations of Sin Nombre virus in Southwestern United States. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 99, 16817-16822 (2002).
4. Glass GE, Shields TM, Parmenter RR et al.: Predicted Hantavirus risk in 2006 for the Southwestern U. S. Occasional Papers of The Museum Texas Tech University 255, 1-14 (2006).