West_Nile_Virus

West Nile Virus The West Nile Virus has been a scare for all living species becoming much more prominent over the past few years. In this article it discusses the foundation of the West Nile Virus within the United States. It also brings to point the prediction of wildlife researchers and scientist alike saying that it is going to continue to spread and cause death not only to thousands of animals, but to hundreds of people as well. The only states left in the U.S. to have no reported cases in horses, birds, mosquitoes, or humans; is Oregon, Hawaii, and Alaska. The Center for Disease Control released that since 2002, 284 people have died from the virus, and over 4,000 have been infected. By November of 2003 the numbers had gone way up, with an estimated 8,219 cases according to the CDC. However, the article does point out the slim chance that a person become infected with the virus, only 1% of mosquitoes are infected in most areas where the virus has turned up. Less than 1% develops severe symptoms the rest just experience flu-like symptoms. However, some are more likely to get infected if virus, infected, think, article, west, states, really, people, nile, however, continue, years, symptoms, scare, point, person, past, over, mosquitoes, mosquito, mind, just, helps, find, develop, cdc, cases, been, about, within, wildlife, way, unlikely, unknown