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    West Nile virus (WNV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes West Nile fever. It is a member of the family Flaviviridae, from the genus Flavivirus...
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    West Nile fever is an infection by the West Nile virus, which is typically spread by mosquitoes. In about 80% of infections people have few or no symptoms...
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    The West Nile virus quickly spread across the United States after the first reported cases in Queens, New York, in 1999. The virus is believed to have...
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    deaths. Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes include malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever, filariasis, tularemia, dirofilariasis,...
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  • West Nile may refer to: West Nile fever, a disease caused by the West Nile virus West Nile sub-region, Uganda West Nile virus, a virus that causes West...
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    susceptible to the West Nile virus, making them useful as a bioindicator to track the virus's spread. Direct transmission of the virus from crows to humans...
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    Dengue virus Japanese encephalitis virus group Japanese encephalitis virus Murray Valley encephalitis virus St. Louis encephalitis virus West Nile virus Spondweni...
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    The West Nile virus has caused outbreaks of West Nile fever in countries on a number of different continents since its discovery in 1937 in Uganda. The...
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  • and declared highly unethical. In the 1950s, Southam also tested the West Nile Virus as a potential virotherapy; he injected it into over 100 cancer patients...
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    RNA viruses in the family Flaviviridae. The genus includes the West Nile virus, dengue virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, yellow fever virus, Zika...
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    as West Nile virus. It mainly infects Culex mosquitoes and birds; humans form a dead-end host. First identified in South Africa in 1959, the virus has...
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    West Nile sub-region, previously known as West Nile Province and West Nile District, is a sub-region in north-western Uganda, in the Northern Region of...
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    where the virus was first isolated in 1947. Zika virus shares a genus with the dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, and West Nile viruses. Since...
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    Populations of Culex pipiens from a West Nile Virus Endemic Focus in New York City: Parity Rates and Isolation of West Nile Virus". Journal of the American Mosquito...
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    Island epidemiologist Thomas Mather, who nonetheless noted that the West Nile virus tends to kill the elderly or those with weakened immune systems. The...
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    enteroviruses (common stomach viruses). However, other viruses can also cause viral meningitis, such as West Nile virus, mumps, measles, herpes simplex...
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    increased the likeliness of spreading this viral disease. West Nile virus is a single stranded RNA virus that can cause neurological diseases within humans....
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  • West Nile Fever (WNF) is a mosquito-borne viral infection caused by the West Nile virus (WNV), a member of the Flaviviridae family. The virus primarily...
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    The virus that causes La Crosse encephalitis was discovered in the 1960s, and West Nile virus arrived in New York in 1999. As of 2010, dengue virus is...
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    Christian D. (2020-01-09). "Peptide-β-lactam Inhibitors of Dengue and West Nile Virus NS2B-NS3 Protease Display Two Distinct Binding Modes". Journal of Medicinal...
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    animals. The diseases they vector include arbovirus infections such as West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis, or St. Louis encephalitis, but also filariasis...
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  • bocaparvovirus 1 NS1 Japanese encephalitis virus NS1 Minute virus of mice NS1 West Nile virus NS1 Yellow fever virus NS1 Jurong East MRT station (station code:...
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  • and a protection time of about 2.5 hours against Culex (vector of West Nile virus), while a 15% solution was good for about one hour against Aedes and...
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  • A transfusion transmitted infection (TTI) is a virus, parasite, or other potential pathogen that can be transmitted in donated blood through a transfusion...
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    (carrier) for West Nile virus spread by Culex mosquitoes. While crows and jays are often the first noticed deaths in an area with West Nile virus, the American...
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  • bedroom. Following Middleton's death, his character Glen also died of West Nile virus in The Blacklist (season 8) episode 6, "The Wellstone Agency." The...
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    related viruses, some which are particularly severe in horses, and four known to infect humans including West Nile virus. The enveloped virus is closely...
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    Kunjin virus (KUNV) is a zoonotic virus of the family Flaviviridae and the genus Flavivirus. It is a subtype of West Nile virus endemic to Oceania. The...
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    property damage from Sus scrofa (feral swine). Between 2001 and 2003, West Nile virus (WNV) infected and caused deaths resulting in economic loss in American...
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  • pathogenic agents including enteroviruses other than polio, echoviruses, West Nile virus, and adenoviruses, among others. The Clostridium botulinum bacteria...
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