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residents will be asked to answer questions and give samples of
their blood to help state and federal disease detectives gauge West
Nile virus activity in St. Tammany Parish and prepare for future
outbreaks.
. (AXcess News) Reports of West Nilevirus are rising on the West Coast even though fall's cooler weather is dampening the reproduction of mosquitos there. San Francisco reported its third case of West Nile virus today. aged man tested positive for West Nile virus but that he was recovering at his home. The other two who contracted West Nile virus, aged man and woman, were likely to have contracted West Nile virus from visits to the Sacramento area, health officials said.
Thinkpad The survey of about 500 households, expected to last a week,
will help scientists get an idea of the number of people infected
by the mosquito-borne virus. Because human immune systems usually
are robust enough to thwart West Nile, it has no effect on most
people, and they probably don't even know when they've been
infected. However, the virus can cause flu-like symptoms known as
West Nile fever and, in about one person in 200, a potentially
fatal inflammation of the brain, spinal cord or both.
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Desktop Computer Officials said the Slidell area was picked for the survey
because it is relatively compact and because its high number of
infections -- 39 confirmed -- will provide plenty of medical
information for investigators. Though the work will involve a great
deal of shoe-leather epidemiology, Campbell and state
epidemiologist Raoult Ratard said people picked for the project
won't be caught by surprise.
Notebooks Before a team shows up at a house, a flier will be dropped off
explaining the purpose of the survey and asking permission to
interview and draw about 2 teaspoons of blood -- enough to fill a
small vial -- from everyone 6 and older. The age requirement is
standard for such tests, Campbell said.
Lenovo The samples will be confidential, but participants can ask for
the results of the blood tests, which will be available in the
spring after the results have been analyzed.
Hard Drive About 40 people from the CDC will work with the state Department
of
Health and Hospitals on the
survey. The group's headquarters will be Slidell Memorial
Hospital, the site of Tuesday's news conference to announce the
canvass.
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Tammany since West Nile cases started popping up during the summer.
One reason for studying the virus in and around Slidell will be to
see whether it behaves differently in a Southern state than it has
elsewhere, Campbell said.
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regional behavior, he said, the virus's activity seemed to peak
earlier in the South than in the Northeast and Midwest.
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mosquito species that spreads the virus in the South -- Culex
quinquefasciatus, better known as the Southern house mosquito -- is
different from Culex pipiens, which transmits West Nile in the
North.
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debut in the United States in 1999 in New York. According to the
CDC, there have been 3,231 people confirmed with infections and 176
killed this year in 37 states and the District of Columbia.
Illinois is the leader in both categories, with 691 cases and 43
deaths.
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said.
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end of the year, when it is cold and there is very little mosquito
transmission."
Desktop Computers By learning infection patterns in St. Tammany, the state and
parish will be better equipped to fight the epidemic, Campbell
said. But Ratard said the investigation shouldn't be interpreted as
a chance to second-guess what has been done this year.
Think Pad "In St. Tammany, there could have been 400 to 600 cases," he
said. "We kept that low because of people taking precautions and
because of mosquito control. The system has worked very well. It
was not 100 percent, but I don't think you can do much better than
we did in St. Tammany Parish."
Repair By John Pope
The
Times-Picayune - 10/23/2002
Topic: Pesticides
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