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Article: West Nile Virus: Expert Available.(Brief Article)
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- AScribe Medicine News Service
- Article date:
- June 29, 2004
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Byline: Calif. State University, San Bernardino
SAN BERNARDINO, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Vector Ecologist and Professor Lal Mian, coordinator of the environmental health science program at California State University, San Bernardino is available to comment on the West Nile virus and its prevention through mosquito control.
Transmitted through the bites of bird-infected mosquitoes, the virus causes encephalitis that has no cure. Only mosquito control and personal protection are the options to protect against this potentially deadly virus. Since its first appearance in New York in 1999, the virus took only four years to move from coast to coast, ...