An environmental exposure atlas covering 3,221 US counties. Ask whether pollution, soil chemistry, and industrial activity predict health and wildlife disease outcomes.
Soil copper is lower in Chronic Wasting Disease-positive counties in 15 of 21 US states. Five environmental archetypes identified. Novel finding.
Metabolic Vulnerability Index predicts CWD prevalence after controlling for epidemic distance.
82% of environmental variables show no effect. Validates methodology — not every disease has an environmental contamination driver.
Data from USGS, EPA, CDC, Census Bureau, NASA, NOAA, FEMA. All public federal sources. County-level ecological data shows geographic associations, not individual causation.