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Article: West Nile Virus Is on Its Way to San Bernardino County, Calif., Area.
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- August 13, 2003
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By L.C. Greene, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 13--West Nile virus is expected any day in the Inland Valley as the disease's westward expansion reached neighboring Arizona and the nation's human infection tally rocketed upward.
With mos...uito-borne diseases typically spreading more ...uickly in August and September, local health officials expect the bird-, horse- and human-infecting virus to rear its ugly head.
"We will definitely see it in California," said Jared Dever, a public education specialist with the Northwest Mos...uito and Vector Control District in Corona.
Nationally, ...