West Nile is actually a neurological disease, and can enter the brain and become West Nile Encephalitis. As always, there is the situation with West Nile Virus, which is transported to a human being after a Culex mosquito bites a West Nile infected bird and then bites the person. Katie Nelson and Kyle Moy from the Will Co Health Dept Environmental Division | image via Will County Health Department At the Will County Health Department Environmental Division, there are two diseases connected to mosquitoes on everyone's mind. Unlike West Nile, Zika can be sexually transmitted from one human being to another.
(Photo by Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)The first case of human West Nile Virus (WNV) illness for this year was confirmed in Central California, according to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). WNV can be transmitted to humans and animals through infected mosquitoes--although the risk serious illness for people is low, CDPH said. Held by a pair of tweezers, one of thousands of mosquitos trapped by Los Angeles County Vector Control officers at their lab in Lakewood where they are catagorized and shipped to a lab at UC Davis to be tested for West Nile Virus on 07/27/2004. But the virus can cause serious neurological illnesses in less than one percent, including meningitis or encephalitis. According to public health officials, WNV activities were found in San Diego, Orange and San Mateo counties.
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