West Nile virus in Europe

After a twenty years period without described activity, the virus West Nile (WNV), an arthropod borne virus, re-emerged in Bucharest in 1996, associated to an outbreak of encephalitis. Since then, the virus has been described in most of the southern countries in Europe, the middle Orient and northern Africa. In 1999 the virus was described by the first time in America, around the New York City. Since then, the WNV spread through North, Central and South America, being described in Argentina in 2006. Surprisingly, whereas the virus is causing its worst known epidemics in America, it is associated to small outbreaks in the Mediterranean basin. The control of future epidemics due to WNV and other related viruses depends on the study of the ecological, ambient and social factors influencing the distinct epidemic behaviour of the virus in the Old World and in the New World.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Tenorio, A., Vázquez, A., Sánchez-Seco, M. P., Jiménez-Clavero, Miguel Ángel
Format:	artículo de revisión biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Esmon Publicidad 2007
Subjects:	Arbovirus, Flavivirus, Virus West Nile, Europe,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/294664
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