West Nile Virus

U.S. Army Asked to Fight Potential Outbreak

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 19th, 2000

In a sealed laboratory, scrub-suited U.S. Army scientists are probing the mysteries of mosquitoes that spread the West Nile virus, including one that could be especially adept at transmitting the sometimes deadly disease.

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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