neurological disease in horses

• West Nile Cases On Increase This Year

It's particularly the case when droughts and heat waves start early," said [Paul Epstein]. "That's when the virus gets ramped up. Phil Currie, the entomologist working with the provincial West Nile program, said in hot, dry weather, everything about the Culex tarsalis mosquitoes and the West Nile virus speeds up -- the bugs mature more quickly and the virus matures more quickly in the bugs making them contagious in just days rather than weeks. "They do lots of little bites but every bite transfers a bit of saliva," he said. "You don't notice them as much but they're biting."

... who have the most dangerous form of the disease, are the most cases to be diagnosed by this point ... human cases, only in birds, mosquitoes and horses. The human cases this year include eight men and t... West Nile, including 38 with the neurological syndrome. Two people died that year. In 2004, when...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 11, 2009