West Nile Virus Said to Be Ariz. Epidemic
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PHOENIX Aug. 17, 2004  With triple-digit heat and nearly nonexistent rainfall, Phoenix seems an unlikely spot for this year&#39;s West Nile virus epicenter. Yet, federal health officials say Arizona is the only state where the mosquito-borne virus is an ...
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Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services (PHES) has received notification from the Texas Department of State Health Services of the first confirmed human death of West Nile virus (WNv) in Harris County, Texas this year.
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State officials said Friday that a second person has tested positive for West Nile virus this season in Pennsylvania. The individual is a 49-year-old man from York County.
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As summer winds down, public health officials are keeping track of the potentially deadly West Nile virus. So far, Ingham County has been spared from human cases of the virus, and officials want to keep it that way.
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MIAMI -- Two people who contracted West Nile virus in Georgia may have acquired the deadly infection while undergoing dialysis treatment, US health officials said yesterday.
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Blood infected with West Nile virus was given to a Navajo County man during surgery, a blood bank official confirmed Wednesday. The man later died of the illness.
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Health officials started warning the public in March: Expect a high number of West Nile cases throughout Southern California when the mosquito season begins.
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A second horse in San Diego County has tested positive for West Nile virus this year, a 10-year-old mare stabled near the Tijuana River Valley, county officials reported yesterday.
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HOUSTON -- Harris County has recorded its first death this year from the West Nile virus, health department officials told Local 2 Tuesday.
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A 30-year-old man from northern San Luis Obispo County tested positive for West Nile virus, marking the Central Coast&#39;s first confirmed human case of the mosquito-borne disease, officials announced Monday.
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West Nile virus appears to have claimed its first human victim this year in Fairfax County (website - news) . Health officials say an elderly man in the Mount Vernon section of the county is the first probable case of the year.
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Two more birds found dead in Ventura County have tested positive for West Nile virus, and environmental health officials say they expect more birds to get the disease.
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Bee Medical Writer. West Nile virus has claimed the life of a Tehama County man, marking the first death from the mosquito-borne disease in Northern California.
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Octoberâs unseasonably warm and wet weather ushered in Matagorda Countyâs first reported case of West Nile virus in an area horse.
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PHOENIX - With triple-digit heat and nearly nonexistent rainfall, Phoenix seems an unlikely spot for this year's West Nile virus epicenter. Yet, federal health officials say Arizona is the only state where the mosquito-borne virus is an epidemic...
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A 56-year-old Placer County resident has received a &quot;preliminary positive&quot; on a test for West Nile virus. If follow-up tests are also positive, that person would be the first in the county to contract the disease.
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:    -----     Arizona Leads Nation in West Nile Cases      Thousands of abandoned swimming pools, along with irrigation canals and other prime breeding sites for mosquitoes in Phoenix, have made Arizona the state hardest hit by West Nile virus this year.      Arizona has accounted for at least 290 of more than 500 reported cases of West Nile virus in the United States so far in 2004...