Table 3.
Comparison by agency type: The number of states that provided zoonotic viruses data on websites by frequency as well as the average duration of years the data is provided by virus, 2000-2012 (viruses chosen from Figure 1; frequency P value determined by Fisher’s Exact test and virus P value determined by ANOVA; percentages might not add to 100% due to rounding).
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Public Health | Agriculture | Wildlife | P value |
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<.001a |
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Weekly | 25 (13%) | 3 (5%) | 0 |
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Monthly | 8 (4%) | 2 (3%) | 0 |
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Yearly | 124 (66%) | 18 (30%) | 3 (23%) |
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Mixed | 24 (13%) | 2 (3%) | 1 (8%) |
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As identified | 6 (3%) | 34 (58%) | 9 (69%) | |
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Rabies | 9.3 | 3.4 | 4.2 |
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WNV | 10.0 | 3.5 | 7 |
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EEE | 8.5 | 2.6 | 1 |
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SLE | 8.2 | 5 | 0 |
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WEE | 6 | 9 | 0 |
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Influenza | 7.1 | 1.5 | 2 |
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Dengue | 7.7 | 1 | 0 |
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aComputed by removing other variable with all zeros.
bOnly includes states that reported data for a given virus.