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Climate change may accelerate spread of West Nile virus – Medical News Today
A new mathematical model suggests global warming will raise transmission rates of the West Nile virus in some parts of the United States.
A new model suggests the warming climate will boost transmission of the West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne viruses in parts of the United States where temperatures are currently below the insects optimum range.
West Nile virus, which mosquitoes — as principal vectors — transmit to humans, first arrived in North America in 1999. Since then, it has become the most common mosquito-borne infection in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Scientific models at Stanford University, CA, now predict the …
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