Texas Mosquito Control Response Following Hurricane Harvey

Notes from the Field: Tuberculosis Control Activities After Hurricane Harvey — Texas, 2017

On September 14, 2017, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reported that Hurricane Harvey had caused 82 deaths in Texas during August 25–August 30, 2017 (1), with property damage that could total $180 billion (2). Houston alone received 45 inches of rain from August 24 to September 1, 2017, and some parts of Texas received 60 inches or more. Dozens of inches of rain also fell o...

Emergency department utilization in the Texas Medicaid emergency waiver following Hurricane Katrina.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the enrollment and emergency department (ED) utilization in TexKat, the Texas Medicaid emergency waiver implemented following Hurricane Katrina. DATA SOURCES Individual-level enrollment and utilization data from the 2005 Medicaid Analytic Extract. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive analysis is performed on variables that describe enrollment levels, the demographic characteristic...

Survivors, not invaders, control forest development following simulated hurricane.

Wind disturbance profoundly shapes temperate forests but few studies have evaluated patterns and mechanisms of long-term forest dynamics following major windthrows. In 1990, we initiated a large hurricane simulation experiment in a 0.8-ha manipulation (pulldown) and 0.6-ha control area of a maturing Quercus rubra--Acer rubrum forest in New England. We toppled 276 trees in the pulldown, using a ...

Emergency Mosquito Control on a Selected Area in Eastern North Carolina After Hurricane Irene

Natural disasters such as hurricanes may contribute to mosquito abundance and, consequently, arbovirus transmission risk. In 2011, flooding from Hurricane Irene in eastern North Carolina (NC) resulted in increased mosquito populations that hindered recovery efforts. Budget shortfalls in NC have reduced the functionality of long-term mosquito surveillance and control programs; hence, many counti...

Characteristics of Hurricane Ike During Its Passage over Houston, Texas