A West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance network including sentinel chickens was deployed in Thessaloniki county, Greece, from May to July 2011. For the first time in summer 2011, a chicken WNV isolate from 6 July was molecularly identified. The partial NS3 sequence was identical to that of the Nea Santa-Greece-2010 WNV lineage 2, detected in central Macedonia in 2010. This suggests that WNV is act...

Article history: Received 30 November 2010 Received in revised form 12 July 2011 Accepted 21 October 2011

Article history: Received 6 May 2010 Revised 13 March 2011 Available online 22 July 2011 MSC: 46E35 47A07

Article history: Received 26 July 2010 Received in revised form 21 December 2010 Accepted 6 January 2011 Available online xxxx

Article history: Received 10 November 2011 Received in revised form 10 May 2012 Accepted 26 July 2012 Available online 4 August 2012

Article history: Received 28 June 2011 Received in revised form 5 June 2012 Accepted 3 July 2012 Available online 16 August 2012

[1] During July 2010, a series of monsoonal deluges over northern Pakistan resulted in catastrophic flooding, loss of life and property and an agricultural crisis that may last for years. Was the rainfall abnormal compared to previous years? Furthermore, could a high probability of flooding have been predicted? To address these questions, regional precipitation is analyzed using three dataset s...

Article history: Received 10 April 2009 Received in revised form 24 August 2010 Accepted 2 March 2011 Available online 9 March 2011