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...West Nile, though new to the U.S., has a long history. First reported in Uganda in 1937, it has also affected areas of Europe and the Middle East...
There may be a correlation between summer droughts preceded by mild winters and outbreaks of West Nile virus, according to a researcher at Harvard Medical School...
...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...
...despite Epstein’s assertions, some researchers say that more investigation into the connection between droughts and West Nile outbreaks is needed...
...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...