1940 SMITHBURN, K. C.; HUGHES, T. P.; BURKE, A. W.; ET AL

A neurotropic virus isolated from the blood of a native in Uganda.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Smithburn, Hughes, Burke. In 1937 the authors isolated a virus from the blood of an adult female with fever from the Omogo West Nile district of Uganda, and named it West Nil…

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1943 SMADEL, Joseph Edwin (1907 – 1963); PHILIP, C. B.

Transmission of West Nile virus by infected Aedes albopictus.

The authors demonstrated that the Aedes albopictus mosquito is the vector of West Nile virus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

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1999 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)

Outbreak of West Nile-like viral encephalitis -- New York, 1999.

On October 1, 1999 the CDC reported a cluster of human encephalitis cases; prior to these cases many crows had been dying. The "sentinel event" in this outbreak was the report to the New York Health Dept. by Dr. D. As…

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1999 ANDERSON, John F.; ANDREADIS, Theodore G.; VOSSBRINCK, Charles R.

Isolation of West Nile virus from mosquitoes, crows, and a Cooper's hawk in Connecticut.

First definite identification of the West Nile virus in the Western hemisphere. This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by Lanciott, R.S., Roehrig, J.T., Deubet, V. et al, "Origin of the West …

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2006 GLASS, William G.; MCDERMOTT, David H.; LIM, Jean K.

CCR5 deficiency increases risk of symptomatic West Nile infection.

The authors showed that the absence of the CCR5 receptor, which provides immunoresistance to HIV increases susceptability to West Nile virus. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Glass, McDermott, Lim et …

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