Four types of commercial mosquito control traps, the Mosquito Magnet Pro (MMP), the Sentinel 360 (S360), the BG-Sentinel (BGS), and the Mega-Catch Ultra (MCU), were compared with a standard Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) light trap for efficacy in collecting phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a small farming village in the Nile River Valley 10 km north of Aswan, Egypt.

Twenty new human cases of West Nile fever have been reported for the EU and 33 for its neighbourhood over the past week.

Nine new human cases of West Nile fever have been reported in the EU and 27 in its neighbourhood over the past week.