West Nile, Hantavirus, Plague-
A zoonosis is an infectious disease transmitted between species, especially from animals to humans and vice versa. New strains of influenza are usually a zoonosis having emerged from DNA mixing in geese, pigs, birds and the like, but The Wildlife News is generally concerned with zooneses like Rocky Mountain spotted fever […]
Continue Reading →First day of annual testing shows the dangerous disease in local mosquitoes-
Throughout most of the 20th Century in the United States getting bitten by mosquitoes was an irritation, sometimes a major one, but something without lasting effects. This was never true in many other countries where Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever, malaria, and many more […]
Continue Reading →Is cattle trough country West Nile virus country?
Well I’m going to spend the rest of the day over in the Sublette Range where there are a lot of cattle troughs. Nowadays you have to worry about West Nile virus. Seems like these might harbor the dangerous mosquitoes that pass it. As August approaches the […]
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