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Risk factors for West Nile virus disease are described

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 31st, 2006

Researchers describe risk factors for West Nile virus disease in a recent issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

"Risk factors for complications of West Nile virus disease and prognosis in hospitalized patients are incompletely understood," noted the investigators in the United States.

"Demographic characteristics and data regarding potential risk factors, hospitalization, and dispositions were abstracted from medical records for residents of four Colorado counties who were hospitalized in 2003 with West Nile virus disease," said Amy V. Bode and colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Univariate and multivariate...

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