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While this site has touched on the basics of West Nile Virus, the following links better detail the progress of West Nile Virus Activity in the United States and they contain additional resources about this disease.

Federal Government Sites


CDC West Nile Virus Hompage
This site, maintained by the Center for Disease Control, was an excellent source of information as we compiled this site. In addition to information about how to "Fight the Bite!" there are addtional links for Doctors, Researchers and Educators.

FDA West Nile Virus site
The Food and Drug Administration has compiled a fairly comprehensive site linking all of the governmental departments connected with West Nile Virus. This site has all of the public statements made by the FDA concerning West Nile Virus and how it might affect the population at large.

NIAID Research on West Nile and Related Viruses
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has created this site to discuss the extent in which this disease has spread and also to describe the current research being done to combat this virus.

MEDLINEplus West Nile Virus page
If you would like a more medically driven site, this page is focused on giving information to health officals. While some of the documentation requires a background in the health professions to understand, most of the information is fairly straightforward.

State and Local Government Sites


Links to State and Local Government Sites
Many individual states and counties have hosted their own sites about West Nile Virus. If you are interested in finding out more information about your immediate area checkout this link.Educators.

Academic Sites


Cornell University - What's Going on with the West Nile Virus
This website, hosted by Cornell University's Environmental Risk ANyalysis Program, is largely educational in nature. The main foci of the site is answering the main questions the public might have about the virus and to chronicle the significant developments of this disease.

Rhode Island West Nile Virus Fact Sheet
If you are looking for a quick, condensed source of information, this is your site. Focusing on main points of the disease and the responses to it, it is a great site to gain a "Reader's Digest" version of the information.

Virginia Tech West Nile Virus Information Page
This page was created for the purpose of gathering together some of the best web site information available on this topic. While comprised almost entirely of links to other pages, it is worth checking out

Nongovernmental Organizations and Other Sites


Vads Corner West Nile Fever page
This personal site is a hodgepodge of information and resources on West Nile Virus. While being one of the most extensive of these links, it unfortunately is a little cumbersome to navigate. Use when you have time to explore

WestNileFever.com
While this site does little more than re-present the information on the CDC's website, it has a very simple and clean layout that makes it fairly easy to navigate.

International Sites


Health Canada - West Nile Virus Surveillance Information
This Canadian version of the CDC has very similar information, but as one might guess it focuses on the effects of West Nile Virus within Canada.

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre - West Nile Virus Surveillance
This site is predominately concerned with the tracking of birds that have been infected with the virus

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC): Canada on alert for the West Nile virus
The Canadian Broadcasting Corportation's West Nile Virus site is a compilation of all of their reports on the virus. There are many news articles to read and fairly extensive "Frequesntly Asked Questions" section

Mexico - Secretariat of Health West Nile Virus Program and Information (in Spanish)
This is Mexico's version of the CDC has very similar information, but as one might guess it focuses on the effects of West Nile Virus within Mexico.


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