Researchers' Work from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Focuses on West Nile Fever (A Spatially Resolved and Environmentally Informed Forecast Model of West Nile Virus In Coachella Valley, California).

A recent report from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai discusses research on West Nile Fever and its transmission cycle between avian hosts and Culex spp. mosquitoes. The study focuses on developing a forecast model for the prevalence of West Nile positive mosquitoes in the Coachella Valley of California. The researchers found that a combination of a cooler and dryer winter, followed by a wetter and warmer spring, and a cooler than normal summer was most predictive of the prevalence of West Nile positive mosquitoes. The ability to accurately predict early season West Nile risk could assist in implementing interventions to mitigate the risk to humans. [Extracted from the article]

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