Data from: Data-driven management — A dynamic occupancy approach to enhanced rabies surveillance prioritization

Rabies lyssavirus (RABV) is enzootic in raccoons across the eastern United States. Intensive management of RABV by oral rabies vaccination (ORV) has prevented its spread westward and shown evidence of local elimination in raccoon populations of the northeastern United States. The USDA, Wildlife Services, National Rabies Management Program (NRMP) collaborates with other agencies to implement broad-scale ORV and conducts extensive monitoring to measure the effectiveness of the management. Enhanced Rabies Surveillance (ERS) was initiated during 2005 and updated in 2016 to direct surveillance efforts toward higher-value specimens by assigning points to different methods of encountering specimens for collection (strange-acting, roadkill, surveillance-trapped, etc.; specimen point values ranged from 1 to 15). The data provided are ERS data from 2016–2019 spanning from Alabama to Maine. The eastern U.S. was split into two regions: the northeastern U.S. (New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine) and the lower eastern U.S. (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia). Only the counties within the ERS area were included from each state. The two regions were overlayed with a 10 by 10 kilometer grid. The data include the region, grid ID, season, year, surveillance category, state, county, and the number of positive rabies samples as well as the number of total surveillance samples collected.These data were collected as part of the Enhanced Rabies Surveillance program to monitor for the raccoon variant of the rabies virus along the eastern United States.For more information about this study and these data, see Davis et al. (2021).

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狂犬病病毒（Rabies lyssavirus，简称RABV）在美国东部地区的浣熊中呈地方性流行。通过口腔狂犬病疫苗接种（ORV）的密集式管理，有效阻止了其向西传播，并在美国东北部地区的浣熊种群中显示出局部灭绝的证据。美国农业部（USDA）、野生动物服务部门和国家狂犬病管理计划（NRMP）与其他机构合作，实施大规模的ORV，并进行广泛的监测以评估管理的有效性。加强型狂犬病监测（ERS）于2005年启动，并于2016年更新，以指导监测工作针对更具价值的样本，通过为不同遇样方法分配评分（如异常行为、道路死亡、监控捕获等；样本评分范围为1至15）。提供的数据为2016年至2019年的ERS数据，覆盖从阿拉巴马州到缅因州的范围。美国东部被划分为两个区域：东北部美国（纽约州、佛蒙特州、新罕布什尔州和缅因州）以及南部东部美国（阿拉巴马州、乔治亚州、肯塔基州、北卡罗来纳州、俄亥俄州、宾夕法尼亚州、田纳西州、弗吉尼亚州和西弗吉尼亚州）。仅包括每个州ERS区域内的县。这两个区域被叠加在一个10公里×10公里的网格中。数据包括区域、网格ID、季节、年份、监测类别、州、县以及阳性狂犬病样本数和总监测样本数。这些数据作为加强型狂犬病监测计划的一部分收集，以监测美国东部地区的狂犬病病毒浣熊变种。关于本研究和这些数据的更多信息，请参阅Davis等（2021年）的研究。原始发表日期为2021年9月8日。元数据于2021年10月14日更新，包括相关期刊文章的引用信息。