Canadian Blood Services boosts testing for West Nile virus in ...
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TORONTO (CP) - Canada&#39;s blood bank is now doing more sensitive testing for West Nile virus in Toronto and Winnipeg after the two areas recorded probable human cases of the disease.
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By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 14--About 1,100 families in Wichita are being encouraged to get blood tests for their children because their water may be contaminated with lead.
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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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TORONTO (CP) - With no deaths and just 25 human cases, it&#39;s tempting to think that Canada has dodged the bullet from the big gun that was the threat of West Nile virus this year.
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Two more birds have tested positive for the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, bringing the number of cases in the county to 10 birds and one horse. There have been no human infections reported in the county.
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West Nile virus seems to have put the bite on Toronto a bit earlier this year, with Toronto Public Health reporting yesterday that a 50-year-old woman is recovering at home from the city&#39;s first probable human case of the mosquito-borne virus.
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Confirmation of two new cases of West Nile disease in Illinois has brought the 2004 total to 56 cases of the mosquito-borne illness, two more than 2003.
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Michigan&#39;s fourth and fifth human cases of West Nile virus were confirmed Tuesday, the state Department of Community Health said.
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Harris County Public Health and Environmental Service announced that it has had the first confirmed death for the year attributed to the West Nile Virus.
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HONOLULU -- It will be at least a week before state officials know whether the West Nile Virus did in fact reach Hawaii. The specimens from a wild sparrow that tested positive for West Nile virus in a preliminary
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A second bird in Calaveras County has tested positive for the West Nile virus, the county public health department announced yesterday.
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The state Health Department yesterday issued an alert asking local doctors to be on the lookout for any cases of West Nile virus, after more new cases turned up in California and Las Vegas.
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Tulsa County has confirmed the first case of West Nile virus in a human this year. The Tulsa City-County Health Department says a 73-year-old Tulsa man tested positive for the virus.
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A hawk found in Vigo County has tested positive for the West Nile virus, a county Health Department official said Tuesday. &quot;It&#39;s here.
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LITTLE ROCK - A Phillips County man has tested positive for the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, the state Department of Health reported Thursday.
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Health officials have found a second case human case of West Nile virus, this time in a man from the Assiniboine Regional Health Authority.
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State officials said a second human case of West Nile virus has been diagnosed in Virginia this year. A spokesman for the state Department of Health said the man, who is in his 70s, is in the hospital but is expected to recover.