West Nile virus can infect mosquitoes, birds, humans, horses and other mammals. "It was first identified in 1937 in a region of Uganda West of the Nile River, hence the term West Nile," Dr. Daniel Pastula, chief of neuro-infectious diseases and global neurology at the University of Colora...
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BALTIMORE -- An adult from the Baltimore area tested positive for West Nile virus, the first confirmed human case in Maryland this year. According to the Maryland Department of Health, the patient has recovered from the infection. West Nile is transmitted to humans ...
-- New Jersey health officials are reporting the state's first cases of West Nile virus this year. Officials say three men tested positive this month in Bergen, Morris and Ocean counties. All three were hospitalized. Two have since returned home and are recovering, while one remains in the ...
West Nile virus (WNV) is now endemic in the continental United States; however, our ability to predict spillover transmission risk and human WNV cases remains limited. Here we develop a model depicting WNV transmission dynamics, which we optimize using a data assimilation method and two observed...
The New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services has recently identified a probable human case of neuroinvasive West Nile virus.
CLIMATEWIRE |Houston is seeing a spike in West Nile virus cases — and climate change is to blame. As of mid-August, 24 people in Texas' Harris County had contracted the virus, and more than 600 mosquito samples tested positive for it. By contrast, over the past five years...
Santa Clara County reported the first two cases of West Nile virus in 2024, including one patient who died at a hospital this month, health authorities said Wednesday. The Santa Clara County Public Health Department said the adult patient who died was immunocompromised and died at a hospital aft...
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed the third human case of West Nile virus in Massachusetts this year.