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Article: West Nile virus has claimed three lives in state so far in 2004.(Healthcare Mississippi)
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- September 13, 2004
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Earlier this summer, it looked like folks in Mississippi could breathe a sigh of relief regarding West Nile virus. There had been no new cases of West Nile virus in humans, and fewer cases found in birds and horses. But now there have been three human deaths in Mississippi from the disease that claimed one life in 2003.
In early September Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) confirmed two new cases of West Nile virus, one from Hinds County and one from Coahoma County. There was an additional human death in West Nile virus from a previously reported case in Washington County.
That brings the state's total number of identified human cases of West ...