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Article: West Nile cases confirmed in Arizona, New Mexico; bad season ahead?
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- June 19, 2004
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2004 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A top health official in Arizona's largest county warned residents May 27, 2004, that there could be a "possible epidemic" of the West Nile virus after confirmation of the first two locally acquired human cases.
Those two, and one case in New Mexico, are the first human cases of West Nile reported in the nation this season. One of the Arizona cases was contracted last fall, but was not confirmed by health officials until this month.
"We're hoping it doesn't grow," said Jonathan Weisbuch, MD, director of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health. "But when the virus is implanted in a community, we do see a ...