West Nile virus in Europe: understanding the present to gauge the future

P Reiter

doi:10.2807/ese.15.10.19508-en

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West Nile virus in Europe: understanding the present to gauge the future
P Reiter¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Insects and Infectious Disease Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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P Reiter
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Citation style for this article: Reiter P. West Nile virus in Europe: understanding the present to gauge the future. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(10):pii=19508. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.10.19508-en Received: 05 May 2009

Abstract

The appearance of West Nile virus in New York in 1999 and the unprecedented panzootic that followed, have stimulated a major research effort in the western hemisphere and a new interest in the presence of this virus in the Old World. This review considers current understanding of the natural history of this pathogen, with particular regard to transmission in Europe.