West Nile virus

West Nile Virus (WNV) is a microscopic organism that has caused outbreaks of deadly disease in horses, birds, and humans. The virus is named for a province in Uganda where it was first discovered in 1937. WNV mainly infects birds, but is known to infect humans, horses, dogs, bats, cats, etc.

Other websites

• West Nile Virus - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) page
• U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) pages
  • Recommendations for Protecting Outdoor Workers from West Nile Virus Exposure
  • Recommendations for Protecting Laboratory, Field, and Clinical Workers from West Nile Virus Exposure
• West Nile Virus Resource Guide—National Pesticide Information Center
• Vaccine Research Center (VRC)—Information concerning WNV vaccine research studies
• equinewestnile.com
• Canadian Case Surveillance
• West Nile Virus and Insecticides
• Petersen LR, Marfin AA (6 August 2002). "West Nile virus: a primer for the clinician". Ann. Intern. Med. 137 (3): 173–9. PMID 12160365. http://www.annals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=12160365.
• Morse, Dale; International Conference on the West Nile Virus; White, Dennis (2001). West Nile Virus: Detection, Surveillance and Control (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 951). New York, N.Y.: New York Academy of Sciences. ISBN 1-57331-375-0. http://www.nyas.org/annals/detail.asp?annalID=24.
• Nature news article on West Nile paralysis
• CBC News Coverage of West Nile in Canada
• Hubálek Z, Halouzka J (1999). "West Nile fever—a reemerging mosquito-borne viral disease in Europe". Emerging Infect. Dis. 5 (5): 643–50. PMC 2627720. PMID 10511520. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no5/hubalek.htm.
• West Nile Virus and Wildlife Disease
• West Nile Cases Drop as Immunities Emerge, Experts Say
• Nash D, Mostashari F, Fine A, et al. (June 2001). "The outbreak of West Nile virus infection in the New York City area in 1999". N. Engl. J. Med. 344 (24): 1807–14. doi:10.1056/NEJM200106143442401. PMID 11407341. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/344/24/1807.
• Low literacy materials in Spanish for WNV prevention
• Gene mutation turned West Nile virus into killer disease among crows
• West Nile Virus Genomes database search results from the Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center