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West Nile (WN) fever results from infection by the West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne arbovirus of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae. The virus was first isolated in 1937 in the blood of a woman of the West Nile province in Uganda, who was suffering from a mild febrile illness...

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