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| September 12, 2002 The California Department of Health Services today confirmed that a Los Angeles County woman is the state's first documented case of West Nile virus. This effort is the result of a collaboration between UC Davis, the Department of Health Services' viral laboratory, Los Angeles county's public health laboratory and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vector-borne disease laboratory in Fort Collins, Colo. Assisting in the investigation was UC Davis' Thomas Scott, an expert in the ecology and evolution of mosquitoes and how they transmit diseases such as West Nile virus, dengue fever, yellow fever and St. Louis encephalitis. Scott is an entomology professor and director of the Davis Arbovirus Research Unit. The laboratory provided assistance by performing antibody tests to help differentiate West Nile virus from related mosquito-borne virus infections.
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UC Mosquito Research Program - Department of Entomology - UC Davis - UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
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