The National Atlas of the United States of America will not be producing West Nile maps in 2001, however, another component of the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (CINDI), will be producing West Nile virus surveillance maps for 2001.

According to Stephen C. Guptill, PhD, a USGS Senior Research Physical Scientist, the USGS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are collaborating to produce web-based maps illustrating the results of the 2001 West Nile virus surveillance activity. CINDI will produce county-level summary maps showing the results for 5 categories of surveillance: avian mortality, mosquito trapping, sentinel species, veterinary, and human. The maps will be produced on a weekly basis, although more frequent updates may be performed if conditions warrant. These maps replace the similar products produced by the National Atlas of the United States of America last year. CDC expects the WNV reporting system to begin functioning during the week beginning June 18, 2001. Maps created from that data will be available soon thereafter.

The maps and graphs reflect the data reported to the CDC by state and local health officials. The maps can be found at the following web address: https://cindi.usgs.gov/hazard/event/west_nile/west_nile.html

Alternatively, users can go to the CINDI home page (https://www.cindi.usgs.gov) and click on the West Nile virus icon