West Nile Virus News

Louisiana is home to over 60 species of mosquitoes. Spend five minutes outside on a muggy August evening and you'll probably encounter at least one.

Protonation of Individual Histidine Residues Is Not Required for the pH-Dependent Entry of West Nile Virus: Evaluation of the "Histidine Switch" Hypothesis Export J. Virol.

Recent floodwaters have gotten more than just local human residents stirred up. Mosquitoes appear to have been extra active following October's record rains.

Internet charlatans are responding to the shortage of swine flu vaccine by offering questionable remedies.

Invited to a swine flu party? It would be better to stay home and wash your hair.

Sun Media's Jenny Yuen was at the East York Civic Centre to see how long the lines stretched and to look at alleged cheaters that might be jumping queue.

DAI has been awarded a five-year program aimed at preventing future pandemics such as HIV/AIDS and H1N1.

Chemical ecologists in the Walter Leal lab at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmits West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases.

Comment on this article After a three-year hiatus, equine encephalitis or West Nile virus has made its return to Wilson County, according to an area veterinarian.

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmit West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases.

Comment on this article After a three-year hiatus, West Nile virus has made its return to Wilson County, according to an area veterinarian.

Oregon Health & Science University is developing a vaccine for West Nile virus that could be available in clinics in three years.

With two B.C. horses infected with West Nile Virus in the past month, some horse owners are taking precautions against the virus during peak season.

Some Fort Dodge Animal Health products will be made by Pfizer Inc. in the future as the result of a complex transaction that will eventually result in Boehringer Ingelheim taking over the local veterinary medicine plants.

There was less West Nile Virus this year in Tennessee compared to 2008, and unusually cool weather in July and August is probably the reason, a state health expert said Monday.

A 7-year-old Modesto girl with West Nile virus has been in a coma and hospitalized for nearly three weeks, her family said Monday.

For almost five months, Ray Stevens fought for his life in the intensive care unit of a Calgary hospital, paralyzed except for one arm.

Lee County health officials are advising residents to be cautious but not alarmed after a confirmed case of the West Nile virus was identified in a 69-year-old south Fort Myers man Wednesday.

The Washington state Department of Health has confirmed the state's first death due to West Nile virus.

West Nile is a mosquito-borne disease that causes mild to severe illness and first reached Florida in 2001.