“…Since the first detection in the United States, WNV has caused over 12,000 cases of meningitis/ encephalitis and over 1,100 human fatalities. In the following years, the virus spread through Canada, 10 Mexico, 11 Central America, the Caribbean, [12][13][14] and South America. 2,15 Despite causing disease in more than 12,000 humans, at least 25,000 equids, and hundreds of thousands of birds in the United States and Canada, there have been only a few reports of WNV disease in the Caribbean and Latin America.…”