I know it's not the answer to the question, but I was just reading my classmate's comments and I believe this transmission of the virus from animals to humans is very easily relatable to our current situation with Covid. What we sometimes fail to realise is that something that completely paused our lives came from the animals, and we don't know how long they had been living with it. By that I mean that animals and humans have established a friendly and healthy relationship between each other throughout history, but we have to bear in mind the conditions they live in and their surroundings, which are definitely not even close to the environment we live in in terms of higiene, for example. My conclusion is that we must be conscious of that and bear in mind that any kind of contact with animals could result in something not wanted, because otherwise things like the one we're living right now may happen.
Yes, they were related! The birds deaths and the human deaths have the same origin, the virus transported by the mosquitos, both of them were bit by the mosquitos which led to the development of encephalitis.
Yes, there was. Both deaths were related to a mosquito transmitted virus. The same disease was killing both birds and humans. However, it was not St Louis encephalitis, as many people thought, but a close related strain from Africa called West Nile virus. The death of birds was an important warning sign that the virus was arriving.
Yes. The virus is transmitted to humans through the bite of a mosquito that has bitten a previously infected bird. Due to the presence of these dead birds, we can associate this death with the spread of the disease through the cities, through mosquitoes.
Yes, there was. The disease that was causing encephalitis in both humans and birds was the West Nile Virus (WNV). This link was found when samples of brain tissue from the birds that were dying at the zoo were examined, and showed signs of this virus, which was also the virus responsible of the disease and death of humans.
The WNV as discussed in the vides, transmits through mosquitoes, therefore we know that mosquitoes were biting both birds and humans, and the disease was spreading faster due to this form of transmission.
Yes there is. WN virus which causes encephalitis is transmitted from birds to humans trough a vector, the mosquito. Therefore if birds die it means they are infected and this means the virus is present in the city and it can arrive to humans with the mosquito bites.
Bird death was crucial to identifying the WN virus as the cause of the human outbreak and defining its geographical and temporal limits. McNamara soon realized that there was a link between the death of New York birds and the human deaths from encephalitis.
I know it's not the answer to the question, but I was just reading my classmate's comments and I believe this transmission of the virus from animals to humans is very easily relatable to our current situation with Covid. What we sometimes fail to realise is that something that completely paused our lives came from the animals, and we don't know how long they had been living with it. By that I mean that animals and humans have established a friendly and healthy relationship between each other throughout history, but we have to bear in mind the conditions they live in and their surroundings, which are definitely not even close to the environment we live in in terms of higiene, for example. My conclusion is that we must be conscious of that and bear in mind that any kind of contact with animals could result in something not wanted, because otherwise things like the one we're living right now may happen.
Yes, they were related! The birds deaths and the human deaths have the same origin, the virus transported by the mosquitos, both of them were bit by the mosquitos which led to the development of encephalitis.
Yes, there was. Both deaths were related to a mosquito transmitted virus. The same disease was killing both birds and humans. However, it was not St Louis encephalitis, as many people thought, but a close related strain from Africa called West Nile virus. The death of birds was an important warning sign that the virus was arriving.
Yes. The virus is transmitted to humans through the bite of a mosquito that has bitten a previously infected bird. Due to the presence of these dead birds, we can associate this death with the spread of the disease through the cities, through mosquitoes.
Yes, these birds passed the virus to mosquitoes that infected humans.
Yes, at first start with the death of crows in new york then pas to human that also death and have infected.
Yes, there was. The disease that was causing encephalitis in both humans and birds was the West Nile Virus (WNV). This link was found when samples of brain tissue from the birds that were dying at the zoo were examined, and showed signs of this virus, which was also the virus responsible of the disease and death of humans.
The WNV as discussed in the vides, transmits through mosquitoes, therefore we know that mosquitoes were biting both birds and humans, and the disease was spreading faster due to this form of transmission.
Yes there is. WN virus which causes encephalitis is transmitted from birds to humans trough a vector, the mosquito. Therefore if birds die it means they are infected and this means the virus is present in the city and it can arrive to humans with the mosquito bites.
Yes, because the WN virus is transmitted to humans from mosquitoes that have bitten infected birds.
Bird death was crucial to identifying the WN virus as the cause of the human outbreak and defining its geographical and temporal limits. McNamara soon realized that there was a link between the death of New York birds and the human deaths from encephalitis.