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West Nile Virus
Colin Bentley, Nick Agnone
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What is the west Nile virus?
• The west Nile virus is a microscopic organism that has causes outbreaks of deadly disease in Uganda.
• This disease is viral.• Originated from birds. • You know you have it when your starting
to have flu like symptoms( headache and high fever).
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Diagrams
These diagrams show what transmits the disease and what it looks like. The flow chart shows how the disease is spread.
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What are the symptoms?
• They are flu like symptoms, such as diarrhea, fever, headache, muscle ache, nausea, sore throat, and vomiting.
• Some of these symptoms are only seen in 1% of people.
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How it is spread?
• The disease is not spread by humans but by mosquitoes.
• The disease is gathered by the mosquito when it bites a infected bird.
• The infected mosquito now bites a human infecting them.
• This process occurs several times.
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History of West Nile Virus
• The west Nile virus originated in Uganda In birds.
• Found in 1937• In 1999 the disease was seen in the US• Carried by dead birds across the Atlantic • The mosquitoes bit the dead birds
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Who is most susceptible to it?
• Africans in Uganda are most likely to get the disease
• Since they live by The diseases source they have the best chance
• Some Americans can get it since it came across the Atlantic in 1999
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Works Cited
• www.cchd.net/west-nile-virus.html• www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH00
04457/• m.kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/
outdoor/west_nile.html• Worldbook Encyclopedia