West Nile Virus- some basic information--

various links | 09-07-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[backhoe]

Here are a few links to basic information about the West Nile Virus currently being so hotly discussed.

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2.	CDC West Nile Virus Home Page - Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID)
	The West Nile Virus Home Page of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency of the U.S. government.

3.	West Nile Virus
	West Nile Virus If you have come in contact with or have seen suspicious or dead birds, please contact your local Health Department. The following link lists State Health Departments and contact numbe

4.	West Nile Virus - Pennsylvania DOH
	Consult the Pennsylvania Department of Health's West Nile Surveillance Program. Includes a fact sheet and suggestions to reduce individual risk.

5.	West Nile Virus Maps - nationalatlas.gov
	Maps Showing West Nile Virus Distribution 2000 - The National Atlas of the United States of America

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.
"The old-fashioned term for these diseases used to be sleeping-sickness."

I didn't know that. Is this what used to devastate the cattle herds in southern Africa?

Michael Frazier

[curmudgeonII]

"Sleeping sickness" is caused by two drastically different types of microorganisms.

What we are familiar with in this country, and elsewhere, are caused by a number of closely related viruses - Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Western Equine Encephalitis, St. Louis Equine Encephalitis, and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis and now [I believe] West Nile Fever. The term Equine was used as horses can get this disease. It was originally thought that these diseases spread to man from horse, which is not true.

In Africa there is a "sleeping sickness" which is caused by a single celled animal [Protozoan] - I think a trypanosome.

Same name, different causes.

[curmudgeonII]

"Sleeping sickness" is caused by two drastically different types of microorganisms.

What we are familiar with in this country, and elsewhere, are caused by a number of closely related viruses - Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Western Equine Encephalitis, St. Louis Equine Encephalitis, and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis and now [I believe] West Nile Fever. The term Equine was used as horses can get this disease. It was originally thought that these diseases spread to man from horse, which is not true.

In Africa there is a "sleeping sickness" which is caused by a single celled animal [Protozoan] - I think a trypanosome.

Same name, different causes.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

Thanks for the reply.

Michael Frazier