West Nile Fever- a looming risk and a call for effective response

Aishwarya J Ramalingam; Sameena Khan

doi:10.4103/JVBD.JVBD_160_24

West Nile Fever- a looming risk and a call for effective response

J Vector Borne Dis. 2025 Jan 18. doi: 10.4103/JVBD.JVBD_160_24. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Aishwarya J Ramalingam¹, Sameena Khan²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Shree Balaji Medical college and Hospital, Chennai, India.
² Department of Microbiology, Dr D Y Patil Medical College, Hospital &Research Center, Dr D Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Pimpri, Pune, India.

PMID: 39836013
DOI: 10.4103/JVBD.JVBD_160_24

Abstract

West Nile Virus (WNV) is an arboviral single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family. Initial reports of the virus were found in 1937 when the WNV was isolated from a febrile individual from Uganda and later reported from Algeria, West Africa, and the Middle East. Since then, every year cases of WNV infections are emerging and posing a threat to public health.