West Nile Virus
U.S. Army Asked to Fight Potential Outbreak
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 24th, 2000
Controlling the U.S. outbreak of West Nile, which has killed seven people and sickened scores more since it first appeared in the country in 1999, depends partly on entomologist Michael Turell and his six-person team at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Their subjects include Aedes japonicus, an Asian mosquito species relatively new to the U.S. Although the main...
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