virus

// West Nile //


 * Description of virus that causes the disease. **


 * Flaviviridae- belongs to the family named after Yellow Fever.
 * Size: 300×239 (15 KB)
 * Single stranded RNA virus

 
 *  Viral Specificity: **


 * West Nile virus affects the central nervous system




 * The virus spreads from mosquitoes to horses and other animals.


 *  Symptoms and progression of the disease: **


 * Symptoms include: fever, heachache, tiredness, and body aches, occasionally with a skin rash and swollen lymph glands
 * Symptoms may last a few days, although people report having the illness for several weeks.


 *  Common Methods of Transmission: **


 * Mosquito becomes infected when it feeds on the blood of a bird that carries West Nile virus.
 * Transmitted to people usually threw mosquito's that are infected with the West Nile.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Treatment and Prevention: **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">There is no human vaccine for the West Nile Virus.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">There is no specific treatment, people who get West Nile usually recover but takes a long time to fully recover.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Miscellaneous: **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> The West Nile virus was first isolated in a woman in the West Nile district of Uganda in 1937
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> the virus was first recognized as a cause of severe human meningitis or encephalitis


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Resources accessed: **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/qa/symptoms.htm