West Nile Virus (WNV) is the most widespread arbovirus (viruses that are transmitted by arthropods) in theworld. . During the period of 1996 -1999, the WNV became prevalent insouthern Romania, the Volga delta in southern Russia, and the northeastern United States. The spread of WNV covered the United States from coast to coast in four years, and by then it had 7 infected about one million Americans, killing about eight hundred.
Here I mapped the spatial trends of WNV virus in the United States of America.
Check website - http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/eastweb/maps/wnv1999_2011/
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