West_Nile_Virus

West Nile Virus Just outside New Orleans, in the suburb of Jefferson, Jeanie Knesel is fretting about her grandon’s penchant to attract bugs. […]. It’s the West Nile virus, carried by mosquitoes and blamed for a frightening cluster of recent deaths and illnesses, that has the 51-year-old grandmother concerned about 5-year-old Brandon, who lives with her (Lok 1). Those worries that Jeanie Knesel has are not uncommon among people today. The West Nile virus affects the people that the disease infects as well as the family’s of these people. The West Nile virus is still farley new to the United States so there is still a lot of things people don’t know about this mosquito carrying disease. Without question, the West Nile virus can have a devastating effect on anyone’s life. The West Nile virus is a disease that infects different animals like birds, horses, and dogs. This virus also affects humans by sometimes giving them encephalitis (“What you should know about West Nile Virus” 1). Mosquito bites is how the West Nile virus is carried. These blood sucking creatures continue to carry the virus and broaden the territory more and more each year (“West Nile virus” 1). Not all mosquitoes carry the virus. Only virus, nile, west, symptoms, people, about, should, fact, mosquito, united, things, states, mosquitoes, infected, encephalitis, disease, sheet, questions, person, out, know, just, horses, birds, answers, year, way, take, someone, said, prevention, night, lot, humans, house, history