can a cham get West Nile?

[little leaf]

I was just wondering , I don't have a cham right now but hope to change this SN...but I only ask because when I was nursing Gail, a mosquito got in her cage, being sick, she did not try to eat it, and I was afraid it would bite her- and when I get another cham, I do plan to have a big outdoor cage for sunny days , but we do have West Nile around here (Ohio) my friends horse died from it, and I know it is still active in this area - just wondered, already thinking SPRING and sunny days

 

[Carlton]

I was just wondering , I don't have a cham right now but hope to change this SN...but I only ask because when I was nursing Gail, a mosquito got in her cage, being sick, she did not try to eat it, and I was afraid it would bite her- and when I get another cham, I do plan to have a big outdoor cage for sunny days , but we do have West Nile around here (Ohio) my friends horse died from it, and I know it is still active in this area - just wondered, already thinking SPRING and sunny days

From what I just read, West Nile virus occasionally infects alligators but the risks of transmission and clinical illness occurs primarily in birds and mammals. I think the risk is extremely low, but you can screen your outdoor cage so mosquitos can't get into it.