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...clinics exceedingly powerful mutant bacteria are emerging that can't be treated with antibiotics. In the past decade, at least 50 new viruses have appeared, including Ebola Ivory Coast, Andes virus, hepatitis G, Fakeeh, Pirital, Whitewater Arroyo, Hendra virus, Black Lagoon virus, Nipah and Oscar virus. This summer West Nile virus showed up for the first time in the western hemisphere, when it was discovered in New York City...
Then came a break in the case. Scientists at the Fort Collins lab and at the University of California at Irvine, who had scrutinized human tissue, identified the real culprit. It wasn't the St. Louis virus but its West Nile cousin, or something very like it. That would account for the many patients with encephalitis symptoms who had nonetheless tested negative for the St. Louis virus. But it presented a broader mystery. Usually found in Africa, but also responsible for epidemics in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, the West Nile virus had never before been identified...
Thomas Monath, an expert on mosquito-borne diseases, says it could have been carried by someone recently arrived from southern Russia, currently the site of a large West Nile outbreak. If mosquitoes had gorged on his blood, they could have transmitted the virus to birds by biting them in turn--thus starting an infectious cycle deadly for some humans and birds, though never for the carrier Culex pipiens. It's a scenario, says Monath, that's become increasingly common in a jet-setting...
...involve a version of the virus never before seen in the Western Hemisphere. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that its review of the outbreak ?- identified at first as St. Louis encephalitis ?- has determined that at least one of the deaths was caused by the West Nile virus, found only in Africa and Asia. Like the St. Louis version, the virus is carried by birds and transfers to humans via mosquito bites. "Although it?s never been identified as a cause of disease here, that may be because it wasn?t specifically checked," says TIME medical correspondent...
Victorian London provides the backdrop for the "Jewel of the Nile"-inspired parody in which a nasty thief steals wealthy Denise Ovanuncle's prized Jewel of Denial...