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West Nile Virus making people ill here
By Kumudini Hettiarachchi
Joint university study identifies it as causing brain fever
A virus causing brain fever, a culprit in epidemics in some countries across the globe, has been identified for the first time in Sri Lanka as causing human disease here, by an important Colombo-Sri Jayeawardhanapura University joint study.
The West Nile Virus (WNV) was identified as the cause of brain fever (meningoencephalitis) in two people admitted to the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) in November last year, the joint research by the Medical Faculties of the Universities of Colombo and Sri Jayawardhanapura has revealed.
While the virus is transmitted by the Culex mosquitoes (those also causing filaria), ?perching? birds commonly found everywhere such as crows, magpies, house sparrows, mynahs etc., act as the ?amplifying reservoir hosts?, the Sunday Times understands.
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West Nile Virus making people ill here
By Kumudini Hettiarachchi
Joint university study identifies it as causing brain fever
A virus causing brain fever, a culprit in epidemics in some countries across the globe, has been identified for the first time in Sri Lanka as causing human disease here, by an important Colombo-Sri Jayeawardhanapura University joint study.
The West Nile Virus (WNV) was identified as the cause of brain fever (meningoencephalitis) in two people admitted to the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) in November last year, the joint research by the Medical Faculties of the Universities of Colombo and Sri Jayawardhanapura has revealed.
While the virus is transmitted by the Culex mosquitoes (those also causing filaria), ?perching? birds commonly found everywhere such as crows, magpies, house sparrows, mynahs etc., act as the ?amplifying reservoir hosts?, the Sunday Times understands.
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