Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health
issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick …

This paper provides the clinician with an understanding of the epidemiologic and biological
characteristics of West Nile virus in North America, as well as useful information on the …

Praise for Carbon Finance" A timely, objective, and informative analysis of the financial
opportunities and challenges presented by climate change, including a thorough description …

Powassan virus (POWV) disease is a rare human disease caused by a tick-borne
encephalitis group flavivirus maintained in a transmission cycle between Ixodes cookei and …

Background Powassan virus (POWV), a flavivirus discovered in 1958, causes sporadic but
severe cases of encephalitis in humans. Since 2007, the number of human Powassan cases …

Background To date there has been no evidence of mosquito-borne virus transmission of
public health concern in the UK, despite the occurrence of more than 30 species of …

Background Clinical syndromes associated with West Nile virus (WNV) infection range from
fever to neuroinvasive disease. Understanding WNV epidemiology and disease history is …

This article discusses two tick-borne illnesses: Powassan encephalitis, a rare cause of
central nervous system infection caused by the Powassan virus, and Colorado tick fever, an …

West Nile neuroinvasive disease (WNND) is a severe neurological illness that can result
from West Nile virus (WNV) infection, with long-term disability and death being common …

We conducted a cross-sectional, household survey in Oakville, Ontario, where an outbreak
of West Nile virus (WNV) in 2002 led to an unprecedented number of cases of meningitis …