Associated Content, Nov. 15, 2007 Researchers at UTMB have made a discovery that gives some new insight into West Nile Virus. They have found that if a mosquito that does not have the virus bites a person and then later that person is bitten by an infected mosquito he or she would have a higher risk of the disease being worse. The lead researchers are Brad Schneider, a UTMB alumnus who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, UTMB professor Stephen Higgs and Dr. Lynn Soong. The rest of the team is graduate students Charles E. McGee, Jeffrey M. Jordan and Heather L. Stevenson.