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 the mosquitoes who a

Egypt, Israel, South Africa, and some of Asia and Europe are all countries who had the West Nile virus before North America did. In 1937 is when the first outbreak of the West Nile virus occurred. The woman who first had the West Nile virus came from the district of Uganda (“What you should know about West Nile Virus” 1). The West Nile virus didn’t occure in the United States until about four year ago. In 1999, the West Nile virus appeared in New York (“West Nile Fact Sheet” 1). There was no sign of the West Nile virus in the Western Hemisphere before 1999 (“Questions and Answers About West Nile Virus” 1). How the West Nile virus arrived in the United States isn’t exactly known. What is thought to happen is that an infected bird or mosquito carried it over here from another country. This is just a theory and the true reason has not been identified (“West Nile Fact Sheet” 1).

There is no treatment for the West Nile virus at this time. There are on the other hand many studies going on to find a treatment (“West Nile Virus Fact Sheet” 2). There were a total of 4,156 cases of the West Nile virus last year in the United States. Out of the 4,156 people who had the West Nile virus, 284 died of the disease (Ivey 1). The government is watching the activity of birds and horses. This study is done to try to prevent or to warn humans of outbreaks (“West Nile Virus Encephalitis” 2). Dr. Stephen Ostroff, deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases said, “last season’s West Nile outbreak was basically unprecedented for an arboviral infection in the United States in recent memory” (Ivey 1).

Sometimes when it comes to the West Nile virus, people have no symptoms at

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