Re: West Nile Virus

Good info - we've already had a case this year in neighboring Dallas
County. I must be immune for as many times as I get bitten every day.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Wed, 18 Jun 2003 05:40:59 -0500

>Thought some of you might be interested in knowing about this web site.
>
>Donna
>
><snip>
>Westnile Virus Maps
>   
>   These maps reflect information for the 2003 West Nile Virus reporting
>season that has been submitted and verified to CDC. Since West Nile
>virus (WNV) was first isolated in 1937, it has been known to cause
>asymptomatic infection and fevers in humans in Africa, West Asia, and
>the Middle East. Human and animal infections were not documented in the
>Western Hemisphere until 1999. In 1999 and 2000, outbreaks of WNV
>encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) were reported in persons living
>in the New York City metropolitan area, New Jersey, and Connecticut. In
>these two years, 83 human cases of West Nile illness were reported; 9
>died.
>   
>
>http://westnilemaps.usgs.gov/
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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