You have an internship this summer for the Cook County Department of Public Health. Your job is to work with the West Nile Virus group. You need to identify possible reservoirs, vectors, and determine how many people have been infected this year. Discuss which three types of organisms you will be examining and why.
West Nile Virus is transmitted by the bite of mosquitos. Here, mosquitos serve as the vectors for this virus. Mosquitos acquire the infected blood from birds, who were already attacked by the virus. Then, this virus can be transmitted through mosquitos to the uninfected birds as well. Not only birds, this virus is known to infect cats and dogs as well via mosquito bite. So, birds, cats and dogs needs to examined properly to detect the infectionby West Nile Virus.
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