Development and validation of a climate-based ensemble prediction model for West Nile Virus infection rates in Culex mosquitoes, Suffolk County, New York

Table 1 Overview of human WNV cases and mosquito data in Suffolk County 2001–2015

Year	Human cases	Pools	Positive pools	Total mosquitoes	Trap locations	Vector abundance	Percent positive pools	WNV MIR	WNV MLE
2001	1	579	45	16,689	60	28.82	7.77	2.70	2.80
2002	8	546	20	12,332	71	22.59	3.66	1.62	1.65
2003	10	900	26	32,772	71	36.41	2.89	0.79	0.80
2004	0	462	7	13,720	43	29.70	1.52	0.51	0.51
2005	9	927	65	23,445	85	25.29	7.01	2.77	2.87
2006	2	699	52	23,276	45	33.30	7.44	2.23	2.33
2007	0	308	10	9077	35	29.47	3.25	1.10	1.12
2008	9	467	39	11,116	72	23.80	8.35	3.51	3.70
2009	1	660	14	21,074	35	31.93	2.12	0.66	0.67
2010	24	1289	276	34,701	82	26.92	21.41	7.95	9.06
2011	4	1173	67	45,833	57	39.07	5.71	1.46	1.51
2012	14	780	186	32,360	44	41.49	23.85	5.75	6.74
2013	4	1128	157	47,887	42	42.45	13.92	3.28	3.58
2014	1	1166	176	50,336	39	43.17	15.09	3.50	3.85
2015	5	1108	180	41,881	43	37.80	16.25	4.30	4.71

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