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...Drought is what amplifies the virus among birds and mosquitoes and makes for large outbreaks,” said Paul R. Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Epstein works with a team of researchers on the West Nile virus under the sponsorship of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine...
...York City outbreak was preceded by a three-month drought, followed by a three-week heat wave in July. Major outbreaks over the past two summers—including those in 2002 in the Midwestern states of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio and in 2003 in Colorado and Nebraska—were all preceded by summer droughts and mild winters...
...Drought provides optimal conditions for the maturation of the virus in mosquitoes, namely in stagnant water, he said...
...looked back at some of the outbreaks of West Nile and it turned out that all of the big outbreaks in Europe in the nineties were related to drought,” he said...
Tornaritis scored off of a failed Hartford clear, ending both the Hawks’ four-goal run and a 105-minute scoring drought for the Crimson...