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...WEST NILE IN THE U.S. The West Nile virus, which infects the central nervous system, was first identified in 1937 in Uganda but did not appear in the U.S. until 1999. That year it sent 62 people to the hospital, killing seven. By last year those numbers had exploded to 4,156 cases and 284 deaths in 40 states. This year it is expected to strike every state but Alaska and Hawaii...
...rains that recently drenched the East have swelled ponds and left standing water in everything from flowerpots to abandoned tires--perfect skeeter-breeding pools. That would be bad news any year, but with mosquito-borne West Nile virus beginning its fifth summer in the U.S., health officials are increasingly worried. Controlling the maddeningly efficient insects may be the only effective way to control the sometimes deadly disease. Here's what scientists know about the operation of these ingenious stinging machines...
TRANSMISSION Birds are prime reservoirs of West Nile virus and prime targets of mosquitoes. When a mosquito bites an infected bird like a crow, the virus collects in the insect's saliva and can infect the next target it strikes. The disease may take 3 to 14 days to incubate...
...mild winter and heavy spring rains across much of the country have led to predictions that the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, which killed 284 Americans last year, will be even worse this summer. But while West Nile prevention and surveillance programs are heating up around the country, mosquito breeding depends on capricious factors like local ecological systems, making it difficult to tell how bad this year's infestation will ultimately be. But West Nile--bearing mosquitoes are hardly the only pests looking to have a big summer. --By Molly Worthen...
...Hamas aims to thwart the Zionists' "aspir[ation] to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates." The charter cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forgery originating in the early 1900s that purports to set out the secret plans of Jewish leaders to take over the world...