Pesticide spraying for West Nile virus control and emergency department asthma visits in New York City, 2000

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1183-1187

  Karpati, Adam M ^a,b,i   Perrin, Mary C ^c,d   Matte, Tom ^e   Leighton, Jessica ^c   Schwartz, Joel ^f,g   Barr, R Graham ^d,f,h  

^a Division of Disease Control   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NY City Dept of Hlth/Mental Hyg   (United States)

^d Brigham and Women's Hospital ^*  (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h NONE   (United States)

ⁱ Division of Epidemiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Obstructive airway disease; Ozone; Particulates; Pesticides; Pollutants; Pyrethroids; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

OZONE; PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INSECT CONTROL; MOSQUITO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SEASON; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS CARRIER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

FLAVIVIRUS; INSECTA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 4344561336     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6946     Document Type: Article

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