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Establishment of a One Health Surveillance Initiative in the CA/Baja CA Border Region
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The CA/BC border region encompasses a wide range of ecosystems, topography, dense urban areas, and agricultural developments that coexist in a limited geographic area and create numerous humananimal-environmental interfaces. The region is recognized… read more -
A Binational Influenza Surveillance Network – California/Baja California
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In response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the Early Warning Infectious Disease Surveillance Program Office of Binational Border Health in the California Department of Public Health sought to strengthen outpatient ILI surveillance along the CA/BC… read more -
A Binational Model of Collaboration for Enhancing Cross-border ID Surveillance
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International borders present unique challenges for the surveillance of infectious disease. Border communities represent locations with vast differences in cultures and languages, governing institutions, healthcare access, and priorities for the… read more -
Raccoons in San Diego County as Sentinels for West Nile Virus Surveillance
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Since its detection in 1999 in New York, WNV spread westward across the continent, and was first detected in California in 2003 in Imperial County. In California and in many states, birds, especially corvids, are used as sentinel animals to detect… read more