Here is CDC's web page on West Nile Virus' Vertebrate Ecology:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/birds&mammals.htm
My reading of above yields:
1. Birds are vectors
2. Humans, Horses and other mammals develop infection rarely
and it is treatable.
Sajjad
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