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West Nile virus arrives in the Netherlands
While we are preoccupied with the ravages of the coronavirus, the arrival of the West Nile virus in the Netherlands has gone almost unnoticed. Mosquitoes can transmit the virus to humans, some of whom become critically ill. Wageningen researchers are studying the spread of the new disease and designing vaccines.