Mosquitoes infected with West Nile Fever virus found in northern Israel
The West Nile Fever is not contagious and can only be transmitted to a person bitten by an infected mosquito.
A Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito is seen on the skin of a human host in this 2014 picture from the Center for Disease Control. C. quinquefasciatus is known as one of the many arthropodal vectors responsible for spreading the arboviral encephalitis, West Nile virus (WNV) to human beings through thei
