West Nile virus, which is generally seen in the Middle East, North America and West Asian countries and has a mortality rate of 10%, causes the death of tens of thousands of people every year. This disease, which is spread by a specific mosquito species called Culex, unfortunately has no cure or cure yet.
This virus, which was last seen in our country in 2019, was also seen in our neighboring country, Greece, recently. The National Public Health Organization of Greece (EODY) stated that 123 cases were detected in just 1 day and 11 people died due to the virus.
It can be seen in our country again soon
Generally, 20% of patients with symptoms such as meningitis, fever, weakness, nausea, headache and muscle aches are found, while 80% of those who have the virus show almost no symptoms. In addition to the West Nile virus, Culex mosquitoes carrying the virus are at risk of carrying avian malaria, Japanese encephalitis and similar diseases.
Although the virus has not yet been seen in our country, the World Health Organization announced that Greece and its neighboring countries should be prepared against the West Nile virus. West Nile virus, which was not seen in our country in 2020 and 2021, may start to be seen in our country again soon.
It was noteworthy that Bill Gates changed his Twitter cover photo when the deaths were announced in Greece.
Mosquito cover photo by Bill Gates
Bill Gates, who replaced his Twitter profile picture with a photo taken while playing tennis and put a mosquito on the cover photo, when the number of cases and deaths were announced in Greece, became the focus of criticism. Some users even interpreted the photo of Bill Gates playing tennis as killing a fly. After Gates, one of the co-founders of Microsoft, did not make a statement on the subject and removed his profile photo and cover photo, allegations and conspiracy theories began to emerge about the famous billionaire over the mosquito program he published last month.
According to the article published by Gates, this project, called the World Mosquito Programme, was about exposing mosquitoes to a natural bacterium, Wolbachia. According to the project, the transmission rate of mosquitoes exposed to this bacterium could be reduced by up to 77%.
Many conspiracy theorists claimed that Gates made countries sick by transmitting new viruses to new mosquitoes through this project. Bill Gates, on the other hand, made no statement on the subject after changing his profile photo.
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