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Year's First West Nile Case Confirmed

Laptop Battery The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Monday that an elderly South Carolina man has tested positive for West Nile virus, the first human case reported this year.

"If the weather in San Francisco gets warmer over the next few weeks, we anticipate increased mosquito breeding activity, " said Bhatia. A girl from Huntington Beach is the first juvenile from Orange County to contract the West Nile virus this year, health officials announced Tuesday. So far, 15 cases of West Nile virus have been reported in Orange County this year. California's number of West Nile cases topped 800 on Friday, with Sacramento County still leading all counties in the state 170 cases.

Thinkpad The man was bitten by a mosquito carrying the disease while he was fishing in late May and was hospitalized in June. The mosquito-borne disease killed 284 people in the United States last year and struck at least 4,150.

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Microsoft Though South Carolina health officials reported on June 14 that the man had tested positive, they were awaiting the results of CDC tests before officially confirming the case. The unidentified man developed meningoencephalitis, a swelling of the brain and surrounding membranes, but recovered and was released from the hospital.

. (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.

Laptop Computers Health officials in Texas and Indiana have also reported probable cases of West Nile virus, which is characterized by flu-like symptoms including fever, headache and swollen lymph nodes. Both states are awaiting confirmation from the CDC.

old man is supposed to have died of West Nile virus on Tuesday. Health officials there said it marked the first fatality in the state. This year, there have been five reported cases of West Nile virus in Wyoming.

Laptop Computer So far this year, the CDC has reported finding the virus in birds, horses and mosquitoes in at least 28 states, from New York to Wyoming.

The state raises four other species of fish for mosquito control as well. In total, 250, 000 fish were available this year at no cost to counties across New Jersey. Since the outbreak of West Nile in recent years, Kent said, more counties have joined the fish program. Last year, 34 people in New Jersey contracted the virus, which is carried by birds. Three of those cases came from Mercer County. The county has not discovered any evidence of West Nile this year.

Desktop Computer Last year, the virus was found in all but four of the 48 states in the continental U.S. The virus is expected to spread to the remaining four states Oregon, Nevada, Utah and Arizona by the end of the summer, according to health officials in those states.

Notebooks "We were surprised we didn't get it last year," said Craig Levy, the program manager for vector-borne diseases at the Arizona Department of Health Services. "We think the honeymoon is over and we will see it this year."

Lenovo No cases have been reported in Hawaii or Alaska, although Alaska officials are preparing for its arrival.

Hard Drive West Nile virus has been migrating across the United States since it was first detected in New York in 1999.

Travelstar The virus tends to infect birds in early summer and usually reaches a peak of human infections in mid-August.

Gateway Public health officials are expecting to see a number of West Nile infections similar to last year, although they are cautiously optimistic that better monitoring and mosquito-abatement measures will eventually lessen the effect of the disease.

Laptop Parts The CDC and state health departments are urging residents to take precautionary measures such as emptying flower pots and rain gutters of standing water, where mosquitoes often lay eggs. They also recommend that people use insect repellents containing DEET when going outdoors.

Software Fewer than 1% of people who contract the virus become seriously ill and fewer than 15% of those die. People older than 50 are most at risk for getting West Nile encephalitis a swelling of the brain that usually results in hospitalization.

Hard Drives Close to 80% of people infected with West Nile virus never show symptoms, which makes the disease particularly easy to spread via blood donations. Last year, at least 23 people were infected through blood transfusions, according to the CDC.

Electronics In an effort to prevent the spread of the disease, the CDC has begun blood-screening tests at all blood banks in the United States.

Canon On Thursday, the new tests identified the virus in blood donated by a Texas resident. The donor showed no outward signs of the disease. The test prevented the virus' spread to blood recipients. Texas officials are awaiting confirmation from the CDC.

Desktop Pc By Allison M. Heinrichs
Los Angeles Times - 7/8/2003

Topic: Pesticides

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