Dr. Shikha Mishra, Kern Medical, explains that 80% of infected people show no symptoms, while serious cases can be life-threatening.

Dr. Shikha Mishra with Kern Medical discusses West Nile virus following the first diagnosed case in Kern County this year.

West Nile virus was first isolated from a patient from the West Nile district of northern Uganda, in Africa, in 1937. It came to the United States in 1999, and ...

Los Angeles County has detected mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus for the first time this year. The mosquitoes were recovered from a trap in the Winnetka neighborhood of the San Fernando ...

Kern County’s first human case of the year of mosquito-transmitted West Nile virus has been confirmed, Kern County Public Health Services said Friday. The department did not say where the person lived ...

Kern County's first case of West Nile virus in a person this year was detected recently, the Kern County Public Health Services Department said Friday.