“I think the smart money would say we're going to have another heavy season of West Nile virus this summer because of the wet spring, (which means) a lot of mosquitoes,”
Daniel Blumenthal
“What you know does not make you smart. How you process what you know does. (12/2011)”
Albert J Vierling
“both had the more severe type of West Nile virus, the neurological symptoms, and they got progressively worse in hospital.”
Michael Finkelstein
“There were 284 deaths from West Nile virus last year, (but) 30,000 deaths from pneumonia and influenza, and those are diseases that we can immunize against, ... So this is still a quite rare condition and not something that people should be overly concerned about.”
“They think it's caused by a virus. That can happen even if they have no symptoms, never seem sick. Her body attacked the virus, as it should. But then it went berserk. It turns on itself.”
Jacqueline Roberts
“In terms of how did the donor acquire this West Nile virus infection, the two possibilities are a mosquito bite before the time that the person was injured in the automobile accident, or received a blood product immediately after being injured, ... I think we have to aggressively pursue the possibility that a blood product is responsible for this.”
James Hughes
“Four out of five people bitten would have no idea that they have West Nile Virus, one in five will get something that resembles the flue.”
Catherine Young
