| dc.contributor.author | Muleme, Michael | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research study described the factors driving infectious disease outbreaks using Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Uganda and Lyme disease in North Dakota (ND), Minnesota (MN) and Wisconsin (WI) as case studies. Retrospective data on FMD vaccines and outbreaks in Uganda (2001 – 2010) and Lyme disease in ND, MN and WI (1990 – 2011) was used. The time (7.5 weeks) taken to respond to FMD outbreaks, limited serotyping/subtyping (9/121) of outbreaks and the low percentage of cattle vaccinated (2.1 – 21.2%) portray ineffective control programs. Similarly, increase in fall temperature (P = 0.0189) and annual precipitation (P = 0.0250) were associated with increased human Lyme cases. Shrub land coverage and human population also increased in WI, MN and ND while forest coverage increased in ND. These favor tick and deer proliferation leading to increased human exposure to Lyme Borreliosis. Therefore ineffective disease control programs, climate and environment factors influence infectious disease occurrence. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU policy 190.6.2 | |
| dc.title | Drivers of Infectious Disease Outbreaks: How Climate, Environment and Disease Control Programs Influence Occurence of Infectious Disease Outbreaks | en_US |
| dc.type | Master's paper | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-01T21:09:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-01T21:09:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10365/22208 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Communicable diseases -- Transmission -- Prevention. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Foot-and-mouth disease -- Uganda -- Epidemiology. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Foot-and-mouth disease -- Environmental aspects -- Uganda. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Lyme disease -- North Dakota -- Epidemiology. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Lyme disease -- Minnesota -- Epidemiology. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Lyme disease -- Wisconsin -- Epidemiology. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Lyme disease -- Environmental aspects -- North Dakota. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Lyme disease -- Environmental aspects -- Minnesota. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Lyme disease -- Environmental aspects -- Wisconsin. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Climatic changes -- Health aspects -- Uganda. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Climatic changes -- Health aspects -- North Dakota. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Climatic changes -- Health aspects -- Minnesota. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Climatic changes -- Health aspects -- Wisconsin. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | |
| ndsu.degree | Master of Science (MS) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources | en_US |
| ndsu.department | Microbiological Sciences | en_US |
| ndsu.program | International Infectious Disease Management & Biosecurity | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Berry, Eugene S. | |
