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West Nile Med.
[f. west a. + name of the river Nile.]
Used attrib. to designate a mosquito-borne virus and the disease it causes, usu. a mild fever but sometimes a fatal encephalitis.
1940K. C. Smithburn et al. in Amer. Jrnl. Tropical Med. XX. 471 The purpose of this paper is to report the isolation of one such [infective] agent, which we call the West Nile virus, and to describe some of its properties. 1955Sci. Amer. Mar. 64/3 He concluded that West Nile fever was predominantly a disease of childhood. 1961M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xxv. 392 Antigenically related viruses have a similar ecology..in central Africa (West Nile encephalitis). 1983Oxf. Textbk. Med. I. v. 104/2 Recognizable disease due to West Nile virus infection has been observed in Israel... No vaccine is yet available. |