Mosquitoes infected with West Nile found in Israel twice in one month
The West Nile virus has the potential to cause an infection in the brain, which can result in severe outcomes such as paralysis or fatality.
A Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito is seen on the skin of a human host in this 2014 picture from the Center for Disease Control. C. quinquefasciatus is known as one of the many arthropodal vectors responsible for spreading the arboviral encephalitis, West Nile virus (WNV) to human beings through thei(photo credit: REUTERS)ByCELIA JEAN