West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus epidemics in North America driven by shifts in mosquito feeding behavior
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 27th, 2006
"West Nile virus (WNV) has caused repeated large-scale human epidemics in North America since it was first detected in 1999 and is now the dominant vector-borne disease in this continent.
"Understanding the factors that determine the intensity of the spillover of this zoonotic pathogen from birds to humans (via mosquitoes) is a prerequisite for predicting and preventing human epidemics," researchers in the United States report.
According to A.M. Kilpatrick and colleagues at the Consortium for Conservation Medicine in New York, "We...
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