Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$101,254.00

Award Date

8/13/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Project Summary: West Nile Virus (WNV) is an NAID Category B infectious agent and since its introduction into the United States in 1999, has become the leading cause of arboviral encephalitis in the United States. In recent WNV outbreaks, healthy young