West Nile Virus
The mysterious illness that swept New York
When West Nile Virus broke out in New York in 1999, it caused panic. Researchers are getting closer to finding a vaccine, monitoring the cities mosquitoes, but the city remains on high alert.
Nobody knows how the virus reached New York, but it was the first time it had been seen on the North American continent. It attacks the central nervous system leading to encephalitis, and there is no known cure. Several people died in the 1999 outbreak, but now a major public health effort is underway to learn more about how the mosquito-borne disease spreads, and how best to combat it.
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