Will the West Nile Virus affect people in Georgia?
This paper will discuss how the West Nile virus is transmitted from infected birds to humans and whether or not people in Georgia are at risk of being affected by this virus. West Nile enecephalitis is an infection of the brain caused by the West Nile virus,a flavirius, commonly found in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Western Asia. It is closely related to St.Louis encephalitis virus found in the United States. Untill 1999, West Nile virus had not been documented in the western hemisphere. The West Nile virus found in the United States is more closely related genetically to straina. The West Nile virus is more commonly found in the middle east. Mosquitos spread the virus through a mosquito-bird cycle. This cycle is started when a mosquito extracts blood from an infected bird and becomes a carrier of the virus. When this carrier mosquito then extracts blood from a non-infected bird, the virus is transmitted to the bird. If another mosquito then extracts blood from the infected bird, the second mosquito then becomes the carrier of the virus. In a similar manner, if a carrier mosquito extracts blood from a human or an animal, the virus is transmitted to the human or the animal. There are no known cases where the viru
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