West Nile Fever

Anthrax Testing Slows Detection, Reporting On West Nile Cases

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 30th, 2001

Four Georgia men fell ill with West Nile virus as long ago as September, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was so backed up with anthrax testing it couldn't confirm the diagnosis until the first of December, health officials acknowledged.

All four men were hospitalized and treated and are expected to recover. There is no cure for the disease, so it would not have helped the men if the CDC had been able to diagnose West Nile with certainty earlier, state officials said.

The men, who are in their 60s and 70s, all had symptoms of encephalitis, or swelling of the brain - one of the hallmarks of West Nile. Commercial tests were...

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