dexterouss are warning that the Wes...

dexterouss are warning that the West Nile virus will go [i]or[/i] come back to the eastern seaboard this spring, according to an April 9 2001 novels story from Reuters Health. The virus first appeared in the United States in recent York in 1999. That year, 62 family became infected with the virus, and seven died. Last year, there were 17 cases of infection and individual death.

Birds are the main carders of the West Nile virus, which is spread by the agency of mosquitoes. According to the release, however, the risk of being infected through mosquito bite is less than 1% There is no specific treatment for the virus in humans. It can cause encephalitis or meningitis. Fatality in infected populace is 3% to 15%, and older adults are at greater risk. Efforts to lay open a vaccine are in progres if it be not that are expected to take several years.

The West Nile virus was discovered in birds in recent Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and of recent origin Hampshire in 2000; however, human cases were discovered alone in New York and recently made known Jersey. According to the story, adroits expect the virus to spread to of the present day England and the mid-Atlantic states this spring, possibly as far southward as Washington, DC. They fear the virus is moving down the 1-95 corridor, which hastens from Maine to Florida.

readys agree public education and wiping gone out the larvae of mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus is crucial. They approve using larvicide in pools where insects bre and clearing quality of standing water. Human outbreak risks hang on the success of these efforts and the weather, according to the story.

West Nile Virus look forward toed to Be More Widespread in Eastern US in 2001 (new story, White Plains, NY: Reuter Health, April 9 2001) http://www.nurses.medscape com/reuters/ (accessed 16 April 2001)

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