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West Nile



Description of virus that causes the disease.

  • Flaviviridae- belongs to the family named after Yellow Fever.
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  • Single stranded RNA virus



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Viral Specificity:

  • West Nile virus affects the central nervous system


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  • 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.


Treatment and Prevention:

  • There is no human vaccine for the West Nile Virus.
  • There is no specific treatment, people who get West Nile usually recover but takes a long time to fully recover.




Miscellaneous:

  • The West Nile virus was first isolated in a woman in the West Nile district of Uganda in 1937
  • the virus was first recognized as a cause of severe human meningitis or encephalitis

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