Solving The Mystery Of Disease Origins: St. Louis Encephalitis

 16.05.2008 07:13   medicalnewstoday.com

Before West Nile virus arrived in this country, we had (and still have) a home-grown relative of this pathogen. An epidemic of unknown origin exploded around St. Louis, Missouri in the autumn of 1933, a disease that is now known to be transmitted by mosquitoes from birds to people. Now, a new analysis of the genome of St.

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