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Great Plains Regional Medical Command West Nile Virus Tracking System

Great Plains Regional Medical Command West Nile Virus Tracking System. 1LT Joshua D. Bast Department of Preventive Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center. Historical Summary. 1999 - First Report of WNV in NYC 2000 - Collaboration with NARMC, NARVC, CHPPM-N, USAMRIID, DOD-GEIS, & CDC

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Great Plains Regional Medical Command West Nile Virus Tracking System

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  1. Great Plains Regional Medical Command West Nile Virus Tracking System 1LT Joshua D. Bast Department of Preventive Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center

  2. Historical Summary • 1999 - First Report of WNV in NYC • 2000 - Collaboration with NARMC, NARVC, CHPPM-N, USAMRIID, DOD-GEIS, & CDC • 2001 & 2002 - Rapid spread resulted in ill prepared agencies • 2003 - Nearly complete CONUS Spread

  3. 2000 Mosquito Reporting MTF CHPPM-N DOD-GEIS CDC

  4. 2001-2002 Mosquito Reporting MTF CHPPM-N DOD-GEIS STATE AGENCY CDC

  5. 2003 Mosquito Reporting MTF CHPPM-S CHPPM-N CHPPM-W CHPPM MAIN DOD-GEIS STATE AGENCIES CDC

  6. United States Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center Bird Surveillance

  7. Inherent Reporting Problems • Detection - Human infections generally asymptomatic or nonspecific in nature • Wide variety of Hosts/Vectors • Birds, Mosquitoes, Horses, Humans, and various other mammals • Variety of institutions involved in reporting • Medium in which data is reported

  8. The GPRMC WNV Tracking System • Online Database that consolidates regional data for mosquitoes, birds, horses, sentinel chickens, humans, and others • Developed by GPRMC Information Management and Preventive Medicine

  9. Purpose • To provide timely dissemination of information relating to all positive cases of West Nile Virus within the Great Plains Regional Medical Command • To provide an estimate of installation workload

  10. Lessons Learned • Great program + poor compliance = useless system • Components of a good system • Scalable to changing needs • Multiple platform interface capabilities • Include GIS mapping capabilities • Differentiation between trapping methods

  11. Conclusions • Standardization across all DoD entities • Surveillance and reporting compliance • Communication, Communication, Communication!

  12. Questions

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