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West Nile Virus Disease
2015 Case Definition

West Nile Virus Disease
2015 Case Definition
NOTE: A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient’s health needs.

Subtype(s)

  • Arboviral diseases, neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive
  • California serogroup virus diseases
  • Chikungunya virus disease
  • Eastern equine encephalitis virus disease
  • Powassan virus disease
  • St. Louis encephalitis virus disease
  • Western equine encephalitis virus disease

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National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)

NNDSS receives and shares case data from state, local, and territorial health departments to help public health monitor, control, and prevent serious diseases.

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