West Nile Virus -- India
A week after a 6-year-old boy from Malappuram, Kerala lost his life to West Nile fever, samples of dead crows and mosquitoes have now been sent to the National Institute of Virology in Alappuzha to test for the virus.
West Nile fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease. West Nile virus is related to viruses that cause Japanese encephalitis, Yellow fever and St Louis encephalitis. The mosquitoes catch the virus through infected birds. The virus is most often transmitted to humans via
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