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The Integrated System for Public Health Monitoring of West Nile Virus (ISPHM-WNV): a real-time GIS for surveillance and decision-making by Pierre Gosselin; Germain Lebel; Sonia Rivest; Monique Douville-Fradet is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
## Background After its first detection in North America in New York in 1999, West Nile virus was detected for the first time in 2002 in the province of Quebec, Canada. This situation forced the Government of Quebec to adopt a public health protection plan against the virus. The plan comprises several fields of intervention including the monitoring of human cases, __Corvidae__ and mosquitoes in order to ensure the early detection of the presence of the virus in a particular area. To help support the monitoring activities, the __Integrated System for Public Health Monitoring of West Nile Virus__ (ISPHM-WNV) has been developed. ## Results The ISPHM-WNV is a real-time geographic information system for public health surveillance of West Nile virus and includes information on __Corvidae__, mosquitoes, humans, horses, climate, and preventive larvicide interventions. It has been in operation in the province of Quebec, Canada, since May 2003. The ISPHM-WNV facilitates the collection, localization, management and analysis of monitoring data; it also allows for the display of the results of analyses on maps, tables and statistical diagrams. ## Conclusion The system is very helpful for field
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- Author
- Pierre Gosselin; Germain Lebel; Sonia Rivest; Monique Douville-Fradet
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, c2002-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1476-072X)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)