Is West Nile virus on your radar? It should be.

Is West Nile virus on your radar? It should be.

Medpage Today, July 20, 2023

Apart from its erratic effects on humans, forecasting West Nile virus outbreaks remain a challenge. Dr. Scott Weaver, a leading medical entomologist and virologist at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, said the virus is “very widespread, still zoonotic...[and although] it's transmitted more efficiently by Culex mosquitoes when it's hot, it does well both in drought and rainy conditions.”

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The first academic health center in Texas opened its doors in 1891 and today has four campuses, five health sciences schools, seven institutes for advanced study, a research enterprise that includes one of only two national laboratories dedicated to the safe study of infectious threats to human health, a Level 1 Trauma Center and a health system offering a full range of primary and specialized medical services throughout the Texas Gulf Coast region. UTMB is an institution in The University of Texas System and a member of the Texas Medical Center.

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