Elsevier, Archives de Pédiatrie, (16), p. S85-S88
DOI: 10.1016/s0929-693x(09)75307-2
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Summary West Nile Virus infection is an arbovirosis accidentally transmitted to humans from an aviary reservoir via an infected mosquito. Though a French surveillance network set up in 2001 reports low circulation in France, the virus is endemic in other territories. Approximately 80 % of infected children remain asymptomatic, fever is seen in 20 %, and very few develop a severe neurological disease in the patient's blood or spinal fl uid. Treatment remains essentially symptomatic though new specifi c antiviral treatments and human immunization are currently being developed.