2009 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV Online Program

Paper Session: 2134 Emerging Infectious Disease: The role of environmental, built environment, and social risk factors is scheduled on Monday, 3/23/09, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Skybox 206, Riviera Hotel, 2nd Floor Sponsorship(s): Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group Medical Geography Specialty Group Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group Organizer(s): Debarchana Ghosh - University of Minnesota John DeGroote - University of Northern Iowa Chair(s): Debarchana Ghosh - University of Minnesota Abstract(s):   8:00 AM   Author(s): *Marissa Taddie - University of Utah-Department of Geography Ikuho Yamada, Ph.D. - University of Utah  Abstract Title: A Space-Time Analysis of the 2007 Cryptosporidiosis Outbreak, Salt Lake County, Utah 8:20 AM   Author(s): *Debarchana Ghosh - University of Minnesota Steven M Manson, Assosiate Professor - University of Minnesota  Abstract Title: Association of West Nile Virus incidences and urban morphology in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area of Minnesota 8:40 AM   Author(s): *Kristopher Kuzera - San Diego State University  Abstract Title: Temperature change and dengue risk: A study of Aedes aegypti in Thailand using remotely-sensed imagery 9:00 AM   Author(s): *Rose Eckhardt - McGill University  Abstract Title: The Dynamics of Climate, Environment and Migration: Modeling malaria risk in Canada 9:20 AM   Author(s): *John P DeGroote, MS - University of Northern Iowa Ramanathan Sugumaran, PhD - University of Northern Iowa Scott R Larson, MA - University of Northern Iowa  Abstract Title: Identification of West Nile virus disease clusters and environmental drivers and demographic trends using county human disease rates Session Description: The rise in incidence of infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and most recently West Nile Virus (WNV) has been observed in both developing and developed countries. Researchers all over the world are associating the emergence of infectious disease with the dramatic environmental and human induced changes sweeping our planet. This has created an urgent need to understand how these environmental changes impact disease spread and burden. For example deforestation, road and dam building, urban sprawl, natural habitat destruction for agriculture, mining and the pollution of air and water are promoting conditions under which new and old pathogens thrive. In addition, climate change may aggravate the threats of infectious disease, primarily by altering the ecosystems under which many disease and their carriers flourish. A recent focus has been to use Geographic Information Science (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS), and spatial statistics to identify environmental and built environment risk factors and investigate their relationship with disease transmission.

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