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O.C. firm builds 1st West Nile Virus lab (Orange County Register) 13 Mar 2010 at 12:02pm
LCS Constructors in Irvine has built the nation?s first testing lab for West Nile Virus.

INDIANA COUNTY: State reduces West Nile virus funds (The Indiana Gazette) 11 Mar 2010 at 10:41pm
A reduction in state funding will force Indiana County's West Nile virus surveillance and eradication program to eliminate its part-time employee.Bob Pollock, the county's Penn State Extension director, told the Indiana County commissioners Wednesday that the program this spring and summer will try to do ``the same with less.''

West Nile funding for Indiana County reduced (Blairsville Dispatch) 11 Mar 2010 at 9:21pm
According to Bob Pollock, the Penn State Cooperative Extension director in Indiana County, state budget cuts have forced a 22.5 percent reduction in funding for the Indiana County West Nile virus surveillance program.

Fight the bite art contest open to Yolo youngsters (The Daily Democrat) 12 Mar 2010 at 2:46am
The Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District's annual Fight the Bite Design a Calendar page contest for local students in grades K-12 is going on now.In an effort to inform the community about mosquitoes and West Nile virus prevention, the contest encourages kids to creatively design a

IL health departments offer tips to prevent West Nile Virus (KFVS 12 Cape Gir... 8 Mar 2010 at 12:45pm
The East Central and Southern Illinois Public Health Departments remind people that mosquito season is around the corner.

Mosquitoes, Not Birds, Made West Nile National (Scientific American) 5 Mar 2010 at 6:48am
In 1999 West Nile virus infected its first American, in New York. By 2004, the disease had spread across the country. Researchers speculated that, for the disease to spread so far so quickly, birds must have helped. Some species could carry the disease and pass it on to mosquitoes, which would then infect humans. But a report published March 2nd in the journal Molecular Ecology [not available ...

Mosquitoes May Have Been Main Carriers Of West Nile Virus (redOrbit) 2 Mar 2010 at 9:11am
West Nile virus set the country abuzz when it rapidly spread from coast to coast just a few years after arriving in the United States.

Mosquitoes, Rather Than Birds, May Have Been Main Carriers Of West Nile Virus... 2 Mar 2010 at 6:36am
West Nile virus set the country abuzz when it rapidly spread from coast to coast just a few years after arriving in the United States. Most experts assumed birds were responsible for moving the virus across the country, but a paper published in the journal Molecular Ecology finds that smaller wings may be to blame. "This is one of the first studies to suggest that mosquitoes may have played a ...

Mosquitoes May Have Spread West Nile Across the United States (The Epoch Times) 4 Mar 2010 at 6:45pm
Mosquitoes, not birds, were probably responsible for the rapid spread of West Nile virus across the United States.

Blue jays are intelligent, often misunderstood (Evansville Courier & Press) 13 Mar 2010 at 11:00pm
"We have three blue jays, but one's a different color," backyard birders e-mailed. "Is the grayish one a youngster?"


West Nile Virus Books and Items on Amazon

West Nile Virus (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics) by Jeffrey Sfakianos, Alan Hecht
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West Nile Story by Dickson Despommier
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Customer Review: The first accurate information i was able to get my hands on right after leaving the hospital with West Nile Virus Meningoencephalitis-poliomyelitis in 2002...
 
Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making by Jaap Goudsmit M.D.
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West Nile Virus (Diseases and Disorders) by Melissa Abramovitz
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West Nile Encephalitis Virus Infection: Viral Pathogenesis and the Host Immun... Amazon Price: $169.00
 
Crow Medicine (Jane Ray's Wildlife Rescue Series) by Diane Haynes
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Bird flu outbreak reported in five countries - DigitalJournal.com 14 Mar 2010 at 8:10am

AFP

Bird flu outbreak reported in five countries
DigitalJournal.com
One adult has reportedly contracted the virus. In Bangladesh, the bird cull is well under way, with nearly 120000 birds killed on one farm alone. ...
Poultry industry facing catastrophe afresh 1.17 lakh fowls culledThe New Nation
Bangladesh slaughters 117000 birds over avian fluAFP

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S'pore buys 1m bird flu vaccine doses - AsiaOne 13 Mar 2010 at 9:05am

SGGP

S'pore buys 1m bird flu vaccine doses
AsiaOne
The bug is particularly scary for Singapore, which sits next to Indonesia, the country with the most cases (163) and deaths (135) from the virus. ...
Earth Talk 3/14/2010Scranton Times-Tribune
Ha Noi woman tests positive for bird fluViet Nam News
Conference reports new swine flu strainsSGGP

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Virus hybridization could cause pandemic bird flu - Examiner.com 25 Feb 2010 at 2:36pm

Examiner.com

Virus hybridization could cause pandemic bird flu
Examiner.com
Laboratory experiments in mice showed that the avian flu (H5N1) was converted into a pandemic form by a gene segment from H3N2, a seasonal human flu virus. ...
Scientists easily create hybrid virusFierceVaccines
Bird flu kills Vietnam womanStraits Times
Study Finds Alternative Antiviral for Bird Flu Prevention and TreatmentVetPracticeNews.com
UKMedix Health News -StaffNurse.com -Wisconsin State Journal
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What H1N1 taught us - Los Angeles Times 26 Feb 2010 at 1:03am

What H1N1 taught us
Los Angeles Times
It lacks the virulence factors that make highly pathogenic bird flu, or the 1918 pandemic flu virus, so deadly. In the beginning, the pandemic seemed to ...

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Blue jays are intelligent, often misunderstood - Henderson Gleaner 13 Mar 2010 at 11:05pm

Blue jays are intelligent, often misunderstood
Henderson Gleaner
West Nile virus hit the Corvid bird family hard, for they have no resistance to the bug. But their populations seem to have stabilized, and I celebrate the ...

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Symptoms of West Nile Virus

Q. What are the symptoms of West Nile virus (WNV) infection?
A. Infection with WNV can be asymptomtic (no symptoms), or can lead to West Nile fever or severe West Nile disease.

It is estimated that about 20% of people who become infected with WNV will develop West Nile fever. Symptoms include fever, headache, tiredness, and body aches, occasionally with a skin rash (on the trunk of the body) and swollen lymph glands. While the illness can be as short as a few days, even healthy people have reported being sick for several weeks.

The symptoms of severe disease (also called neuroinvasive disease, such as West Nile encephalitis or meningitis or West Nile poliomyelitis) include headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, and paralysis. It is estimated that approximately 1 in 150 persons infected with the West Nile virus will develop a more severe form of disease. Serious illness can occur in people of any age, however people over age 50 and some immunocompromised persons (for example, transplant patients) are at the highest risk for getting severely ill when infected with WNV.



Most people (about 4 out of 5) who are infected with West Nile virus will not develop any type of illness (an asymptomatic infection), however you cannot know ahead of time if you'll get sick or not when infected.

Q. What is the incubation period in humans (i.e., time from infection to onset of disease symptoms) for West Nile disease?
A. Usually 2 to 15 days.

Q. How long do symptoms last?
A. Symptoms of West Nile fever will generally last a few days, although even some healthy people report having the illness last for several weeks. The symptoms of severe disease (encephalitis or meningitis) may last several weeks, although neurological effects may be permanent.

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Q. What is meant by West Nile encephalitis, West Nile meningitis, West Nile poliomyelitis, “neuroinvasive disease” and West Nile fever?
A. The most severe type of disease due to a person being infected with West Nile virus is sometimes called “neuroinvasive disease,” because it affects a person's nervous system. Specific types of neuroinvasive disease include: West Nile encephalitis, West Nile meningitis, West Nile meningoencephalitis and West Nile poliomyelitis. Encephalitis refers to an inflammation of the brain, meningitis is an inflammation of the membrane around the brain and the spinal cord, meningoencephalitis refers to inflammation of the brain and the membrane surrounding it, and poliomyelitis refers to an inflammation of the spinal cord.

West Nile Fever is another type of illness that can occur in people who become infected with the virus. It is characterized by fever, headache, tiredness, aches and sometimes rash. Although the illness can be as short as a few days, even healthy people have been sick for several weeks.

Q. If I have West Nile Fever, can it turn into West Nile encephalitis?
A. When someone is infected with West Nile virus (WNV) they will typically have one of three outcomes: No symptoms (most likely), West Nile fever (WNF in about 20% of people) or severe West Nile disease, such as meningitis or encephalitis (less than 1% of those who get infected). If you develop a high fever with severe headache, consult your health care provider.

West Nile fever is characterized by symptoms such as fever, body aches, headache and sometimes swollen lymph glands and rash. West Nile fever generally lasts only a few days, though in some cases symptoms have been reported to last longer, even up to several weeks. West Nile fever does not appear to cause any permanent health effects. There is no specific treatment for WNV infection. People with West Nile fever recover on their own, though symptoms can be relieved through various treatments (such as medication for headache and body aches, etc.).

Some people may develop a brief, WNF-like illness (early symptoms) before they develop more severe disease, though the percentage of patients in whom this occurs is not known.

Occasionally, an infected person may develop more severe disease such as “West Nile encephalitis,” “West Nile meningitis” or “West Nile meningoencephalitis.” Encephalitis refers to an inflammation of the brain, meningitis is an inflammation of the membrane around the brain and the spinal cord, and meningoencephalitis refers to inflammation of the brain and the membrane surrounding it. Although there is no treatment for WNV infection itself, the person with severe disease often needs to be hospitalized. Care may involve nursing IV fluids, respiratory support, and prevention of secondary infections.

For more information contact your local health provider or the Center For Disease Control.


Videos about the West Nile Virus


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The Coast 96.7 PSA for David Osmond and WAMS Luncheon
12 Mar 2010 at 6:35am

West Nile Virus
12 Mar 2010 at 12:26am

Health Project
11 Mar 2010 at 11:34am

Studying Birds and West Nile Virus on the National Mall
11 Mar 2010 at 10:12am

west nile video project
10 Mar 2010 at 4:47pm


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