CNN — Brittany Yeager was leading a troop of girls at Girl Scout camp in Idaho last summer when a mosquito bite upended her life. “There wasn’t the story of what happened to me.” Yeager, Brittingham and Hamrick are three of the roughly 1,000 Americans who are hospitalized each year with the most severe form of West Nile virus, in …
Kerala is again on high alert as the state has been reporting cases of West Nile fever — a new vector-borne disease caused by mosquito bites. During later blood meals, the virus may be injected into humans and animals, where it can multiply and possibly cause illness.” Unlike Japanese Encephalitis, which primarily affects children, West Nile fever mostly impacts adults. …
