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West Nile Fever: the disease

West Nile Fever is one of the emerging arboviral diseases of growing importance in animal and in human health. Watch this video and find out why!

This video explains how West Nile virus causes disease in horses and humans, and the neurological signs developed in some of them and even, some infected birds. It also focus on the growing importance of this disease in animal and in human health.

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Animal Viruses: Their Transmission and the Diseases They Produce

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