Articles about “WestNile”
Stuy Senior Wins Siemens Westinghouse Prize
While this is not the Westinghouse competition of old (it's now the Intel Science Competition or something), a Stuyvesant senior from Queens, Yin Li, won the $100,000 Siemens Westinghouse Competition for his work in "using yeast to...
Summer of Skeeters
The torrential rain we somehow managed through earlier will probably give us a mosquito- and motley-of-other-insects- filled summer. The city is naturally worried about West Nile but at present, there haven't been any cases, though the Health...
One Prairie Dog To Rule Them All
The Times reports that one prairie dog "has accounted for more than half the 34" reported cases of monkeypox cases in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin state epidemologist Jeffrey P. Davis says that the one prairie dog "was...
Prairie Dogs and Mosquitoes: To Be Added to the Plagues
The CDC says there are 37 cases of monkeypox, mainly in the Midwest. The skin lesions from monkeypos-infected prairie dogs are disgusting (here's a picture), which is another reason Gothamist never wants to touch anything that bears...
Monkey Pox
There are reportedly 20 cases of monkeypox, a smallpox like virus though less deadly and infectious, found in the Midwest. The Times reports that "several patients in the American outbreak work for veterinarians or pet stores that...