West Nile Virus News

Iraq's bioweapons program that President Bush wants to eradicate got its start with help from the United States two decades ago, according to government records getting new scrutiny in light of the discussion of war against Iraq.

Contact MYLES E MORSE phone: 2025646827 email: morse.myles@epa.gov Description: Our multidisciplinary approach will allow for an understanding of how ecological changes affect arbovirus infection and distribution and help determine the impact of WNV on both host and human populations.

Loading... 1 of 2 Environmental Health Specialists Penelope Smelser, left, and Francis Smyth prepare to draw blood from sentinel chicken #397 at the Norfolk Vector Control building on Monday morning, August 10, 2009.

Union Pacific Railroad will have to defend itself from a lawsuit by a former employee who says the company should have done a better job protecting her against West Nile virus.

Genetically engineered mosquitoes created by UA entomologists could provide a valuable weapon against malaria, dengue, West Nile and other mosquito-transmitted diseases.

Loading... 1 of 3 Rooster #397 stirs in his cage next to hen #392 Monday morning, August 10, 2009.

The Mississippi Department of Health has reported another death from the West Nile virus in Mississippi.

Butte County Mosquito and vector control officials are releasing their latest West Nile Virus numbers.

Louisiana is home to over 60 species of mosquitoes. Spend five minutes outside on a muggy August evening and you'll probably encounter at least one.

Protonation of Individual Histidine Residues Is Not Required for the pH-Dependent Entry of West Nile Virus: Evaluation of the "Histidine Switch" Hypothesis Export J. Virol.

Recent floodwaters have gotten more than just local human residents stirred up. Mosquitoes appear to have been extra active following October's record rains.

Internet charlatans are responding to the shortage of swine flu vaccine by offering questionable remedies.

Invited to a swine flu party? It would be better to stay home and wash your hair.

Sun Media's Jenny Yuen was at the East York Civic Centre to see how long the lines stretched and to look at alleged cheaters that might be jumping queue.

DAI has been awarded a five-year program aimed at preventing future pandemics such as HIV/AIDS and H1N1.

Chemical ecologists in the Walter Leal lab at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmits West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases.

Comment on this article After a three-year hiatus, equine encephalitis or West Nile virus has made its return to Wilson County, according to an area veterinarian.

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmit West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases.

Comment on this article After a three-year hiatus, West Nile virus has made its return to Wilson County, according to an area veterinarian.

Oregon Health & Science University is developing a vaccine for West Nile virus that could be available in clinics in three years.