Helpful Links

• Headlines
• Press releases/official updates
• Magazines/journals
• Other information

Headlines

• CBC - 'Toronto Man’s death may be linked to West Nile-like Virus'
• CNN - 'Bird Migration could spread rare encephalitis strain'
• CNN - 'New York Health officials wage preventative campaign as 4 new cases of encephalitis strain reported'
• BBC - 'New York virus ‘could be new to West’'
  

Press releases/official updates

• Health Canada – Update from the LCDC (Laboratory Center for Disease Control)
• CDC - West Nile-like virus
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - Update: West Nile-Like Viral Encephalitis -- New York, 1999
• New York City Department of Public Health - Press Release, Oct.3
  

Magazines/journals

• Time Magazine - 'Of Mosquitoes, Dead Birds and Epidemics'
• Emerging Infectious Diseases - Synopses: 'West Nile Fever – A Reemerging Mosquito-Borne Viral Disease in Europe'
• Medscape - links to various papers
  

Other information

• West Nile Virus FAQ
• FAQ: How to Avoid Mosquito Bites
• CDC – Q’s and A’s about West Nile encephalitis
• Ontario Ministry of Health Information about West Nile Virus
• West Nile Virus information from Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta
• CDC – Fact Sheet: Arboviral Encephalitis
• The Big Picture Book of Viruses - Flaviviridae
• Washington University, School of Medicine - Flaviviridae