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Article: EXPERTS DON'T KNOW WHY EEE IS BACK; LITTLE RESEARCH ON DEADLY ILLNESS. DOCTORS WONDER WHY MORE NOT SICK.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 19, 2004
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Byline: Mark Weiner Staff writer
Central New York's worst outbreak of Eastern equine encephalitis in 20 years has raised new questions for scientists, who are puzzled about why the rare disease flared up this summer after an eight-year absence.
The local outbreak - which has killed no people but has claimed up to 10 horses bitten by infected mosquitoes - comes a year after the virus took its largest human toll on record in the United States.
Nationwide, 15 people were infected with EEE in 2003, and seven died from the brain-swelling virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a typical year, about four people ...