West Nile virus: 7 dead, 81 infected, 6 ventilated
Most patients who were diagnosed were from central Israel.
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 the(photo credit: REUTERS/CDC/JAMES GATHANY)Updated: 
