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Investigating Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases with Remote Sensing and GIS

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For centuries, people have been intuitively aware of the relationships between human health and the environment. Today, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing satellites, and other technologies are providing scientists with the tools and the data to make clear the geographic relationships between the habitats of disease agents, their vectors and vertebrate hosts, and the occurrence of disease in the human population. Although the utility of the foregoing tools as an aid to epidemiology was pointed out 30 years ago (Cline 1970), the medical community has been slow to put them to use.

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  1. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA

    Stephen C. Guptill

  2. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Chester G. Moore

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Guptill, S.C., Moore, C.G. (2013). Investigating Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases with Remote Sensing and GIS. In: Selinus, O. (eds) Essentials of Medical Geology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4375-5_29

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