West Nile Virus (Epidemiology)

Virus May Be New Deadly Strain

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 10th, 2000

Recent crow die-offs suggest the West Nile virus which emerged in New York in late August 1999 could be more deadly to North American bird species than to species in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, where the virus is normally found, a US Geological Survey (USGS) scientist reported at a December 14, 1999, congressional field hearing held in Connecticut by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Dr. Robert G. McLean, director of the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, briefed the committee on the role of native bird populations and other wildlife in the emergence of West Nile virus in the United States. Detection of the virus...

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