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Introduction
Dr. Warner received his DVM and PhD in epidemiology from The Ohio State University (1971, 1987) MPVM from UC - Davis (1976), postdoc at Tufts Univ. [1989] and The Johns Hopkins Univ. [1992]. West Nile virus disease received most of Dr. Warner’s attention thru 2003-10, then travel med., now the new TTU School of Veterinary Med. He is board-certified in both human and veterinary epidemiology. He served 23 yrs in the USAF, both state-side and overseas, prior to TTUHSC's School of Medicine [1995]
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April 2018 - present
Texas Tech Univ. School of Veterinary Medicine
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- Professor Emeritus
July 1998 - December 2016
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Publications (36)
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We seek to explain the high incidence of human West Nile Virus (WNV) infection, and risk of morbidity and mortality, reported from the Panhandle and South Plains regions of Texas in 2003, compared with the rest of the state. A 10-fold increase in human WNV meningoencephalitis cases was reported from this area in 2003, compared with 2002. In...
The US Air Force Academy experienced a point-source outbreak of gastroenteritis originally believed to be caused by Salmonella. The overall attack rate was 48% among approximately 3000 cadets and staff. Food-specific attack rates implicated chicken salad. The odds ratio for chicken salad consumption in ill cadets was 10.7 (95% confidence interval:...
Arboviral diseases, such as West Nile virus (WNV) epizootics, tend to be geographically unique because of the biomes that support the vector(s) and reservoir host(s). Understanding such details aids in preventive efforts. We studied the 2003 epidemic of human West Nile neuroinvasive disease (WNND) in Texas because it initially appeared that inciden...
In 2002, West Nile virus (WNV) first appeared in Texas. Surveillance data were retrospectively examined to explore the temporal and spatial characteristics of the Texas equine WNV epidemic in 2002. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the Spatial and Space-Time Scan (SaTScan) statistics, we analyzed 1421 of the reported equine WNV cases f...
A veterinary medical, public health and medical faculty memoir ... one veterinarian's career journey, to inform the general public and prospective veterinary students.
An overview of our approach for operating an out-patient clinic for clients who are traveling overseas. This is an annual presentation to TTUHSC medical students; semi-annual presentation to TTUHSC Family Medicine residents
THERAPY ANIMALS IN HUMAN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES: BENEFITS AND RISKS
Greater than 90% of pet owners consider their pet to be a legitimate member of the family. Animals can provide companionship; often facilitate exercise and laughter; can be something to care for; and frequently provide a sense of security, comfort or pleasure.
Forces that ‘connec...
To investigate evidence of cross-contamination and to determine patterns of antimicrobial drug susceptibility of Enterococcus isolates in a commercial cattle processing system, samples were collected from 60 cattle shipped to a commercial abattoir. Enterococcus isolates were recovered from fecal and hide samples collected immediately before shipmen...
To determine patterns of cross-contamination and antibiotic susceptibility of microorganisms commonly associated with cattle, 60 cattle shipped to a commercial abattoir (20 in each of three separate trial periods) were followed through processing. Samples for bacterial isolation were collected from the feces and hides immediately before shipping, f...
Satisfaction with medical care has been shown to influence patient behavior, but its effect on the use of preventive services is largely unstudied. This study examined whether women's satisfaction with the accessibility and quality of care was associated with the odds of receiving an annual clinical breast examination, conducting a monthly self-bre...
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is the fifth leading cause of death in the US. Nearly 80% of diabetic mortality is secondary to cardiovascular disease resulting from atherosclerosis. Current therapy is based upon control of blood glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides, primarily through insulin replacement in Type 1 diabetes or oral hypoglycemic agents and/...
Few population-based studies of consumers' perceptions of health care quality have included both rural residents and Hispanics. Using data collected through a random-digit telephone survey of households in the Permian Basin region of west Texas, an area with a relatively high percentage of Mexican Americans, we tested for rural/urban and ethnic dif...
Thesis (M.A.)--Texas Tech University, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-108).
Many tick-borne human diseases mimic other illnesses. Diagnoses are rarely based on comparison of acute and convalescent titers.
This paper reports the epidemiology of hospital-diagnosed acute viral hepatitis in U.S. Air Force personnel from 1980-89. First hospitalizations for viral hepatitis generally declined, ranging from 24.6 to 47.2 per 100,000 personnel. Hepatitis rates were higher among men, (RR = 1.3; 95% C.I., 1.1-1.5) and higher among blacks, compared to whites (RR...
Viral hepatitis and its acute and chronic complications continue to pose significant threats to the readiness of military personnel. Knowledge about the specific viral agents and their routes of transmission are important in developing prevention strategies. A recent analysis of hepatitis in the US Navy for the period 1975-1984 is reviewed. In orde...
The results of HIV screening between early 1986 and February 1991 in the United States Air Force are presented. In this period, two total-force screenings were conducted. HIV incidence estimates are presented by age, ethnicity/race, sex and occupational category.
A non-parametric estimator of the AIDS survival time (after developing AIDS) is computed for the AIDS data set from the US Air Force (USAF). Survival times are unobservable. They are censored by the screening mechanism. The Armstrong Laboratory's Epidemiologic Research Division maintains data on over 954 active duty US Air Force (USAF) individuals...
As of January 1990, 933 persons with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-l) infection were clinically evaluated at Wilford
Hall US Air Force (USAF) Medical Center. The Walter Reed HIV staging system was used in these evaluations to describe disease
status and progression. Most persons were diagnosed through mandatory HIV testing in the USAF an...
During the first total-force screening [Feb. 1986 - Sep. 1988], 712 HIV-positive personnel were detected from a USAF population of approximately 607,000. The estimated seroprevalence was 1.2/1000.
Prevention of NiSO4 induced allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) using ZnSO4 in drinking water was studied in a guinea pig model. Without ZnSO4 interventions, nickel (Ni)-exposure resulted in significantly higher (p less than 0.05) stimulation indices (SIs) as compared to non-exposed controls, using NiSO4 as an allergen in the lymphocyte transformatio...
Nickel sulfate (NiSO4) and nickel chloride (NiCl2) were evaluated as sensitizers in the Guinea Pig Maximization Test (GPMT). The highest concentrations of NiSO4 or NiCl2 used as an intradermal challenge (0.25 and 0.5%) yielded responses that were significantly different (p less than 0.05) between exposed and control guinea pigs at 24 h, and the hig...
A descriptive epidemiologic study was conducted to quantitate the occurrence of zoonoses in pet animals (almost exclusively dogs and cats) at 30 Air Force bases in nine regions of the United States during 1980 and 1981. Reviews of reported cases of pet-associated zoonoses in humans at these bases were included. Occurrence of a zoonotic disease in d...
