West Nile virus, mosquito and NYC
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Two human cases of West Nile virus have been reported in New York as the virus has been detected in a record number of mosquitoes in the city, health officials said Tuesday.. Across the city’s ...
West Nile virus, which is spread to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito, arrived unexpectedly in the United States in 1999. The virus is most transmittable in hot, humid, subtropical climates. Still, West Nile virus has continued to spread in the United States in the last 20 years and is ...