West Nile Virus and New York City

West Nile Virus (WNV)

West Nile infection is a solitary abandoned RNA infection that causes West Nile fever. It is an individual from the family Flaviviridae, from the sort Flavivirus, which likewise contains the Zika infection, dengue infection, and yellow fever infection. The infection is principally communicated by mosquitoes, generally types of Culex. The essential hosts of WNV are birds, so the infection stays inside a "bird-mosquito-bird" transmission cycle. The infection is hereditarily connected with the Japanese encephalitis group of infections.

New York City

At a time when the world is fighting a monkeypox outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic, a new virus is causing panic in New York City. the west Nile virus has been found in two people in New York and the USA. Over 50 West Nile Virus infections and 04 deaths have been reported this year. the West Nile Virus has also soared in Europe with over 100 cases just this year.

The earliest known case of the virus was recorded in the west Nile district of Uganda in 1937. the virus spreads through an infected mosquito bite around one in 05 people infected with the virus show flow-like symptoms such as fever body, ache, vomiting, diarrhea, and rashes. 

About one in 150 people are severely affected by the virus and develop serious illnesses related to the central nervous system, while the virus is not contagious there is a great possibility of human-to-human transmission through blood transfusion or organ transplant. The incubation period is usually three to fourteen days currently there are no vaccines available to treat infections. In New York City the virus was detected 20 years ago. it is now considered endemic in the state of New York, this time the city's health department said that a record number of mosquitoes across the city had traces of the virus over 1060 positive mosquito pools have been identified across the city, and so far this is the highest number ever recorded.