West Nile Virus

Age, Diabetes Status Independent Risk Factors For Infection

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 14th, 2001

by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Doctors along the eastern seaboard of the United States should routinely consider West Nile virus in the differential diagnosis of viral encephalitis and meningitis, public health officials in New York City suggest.

The rapid spread of the virus there, following its first appearance in the Western Hemisphere in 1999, highlights the need for public health workers to be on high alert during the summer months, said D. Nash and colleagues with the New York City Department of Health.

They described the initial cluster of meningoencephalitis associated with muscle weakness in late August of that year, in their...

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