West Nile virus

The West Nile virus is caused by the West Nile virus.

This virus can give you fever, headache, body aches, skin rash and swollen lymph glands. This virus causes in some cases death and in other cases major illnesses, and in a few cases minor illness.
This year (2012) it appears there is an increase in the number of cases being reported. According to the CDC there have been approximately 1100 cases reported to date. In 2011 there were approximately 700 cases reported and in 2010 about 1000 cases of West Nile Virus were reported.

The West Nile virus has pretty much spread through the whole United States.
There is no treatment now for the West Nile virus. The West Nile virus is spread through blood transfusion which is why most people get it from mosquitoes.

1918 flu

In the 1918 flu video I learned that the flu comes from birds. I learned that the h1n1 virus in 1918 was the deadliest flu recorded, it killed more people than world war 1. The scientist wanted to find out if it was possible to mix the avian virus with the h1n1 virus to see if it was possible to make the avian virus able to move from person to person.

In my opinion, it was to risky for him to try this. It's good to have gained this knowledge but the risk of accidently doing something and possibly starting another pandemic from it is to risky. I did think however, it was a very interesting experiment.