West Nile Virus

Two Harvard experts claim West Nile virus could be "bigger than SARS" in 2003

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 15th, 2003

According to two Harvard experts, West Nile Virus, which sickened 4,156 people and resulted in 284 deaths in North America last year, could end up in 2003 having a considerably bigger human and non-human impact than that seen to date with SARS.

The pair indicated that the Plains, western states, and Alaska may be particularly susceptible to 2002-like West Nile Virus conditions, which already are at alarming levels in Central and Latin America.

Paul Epstein, MD, associate director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment, and Douglas Causey, PhD, senior biologist at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative...

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