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Article: VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BEGINS EIGHTH YEAR OF WEST NILE VIRUS TESTING
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 12, 2007
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The Vermont Department of Health issued the following news release:
No human cases of West Nile virus have been reported by the Vermont Department of Health for the past three years. The State of Vermont hopes to report "zero" cases again this year.
"Although severe illness is rare after a person is infected with West Nile virus, every summer we remind people that there is a risk of West Nile virus as long as mosquitoes are active," said Patsy Tassler, an epidemiologist with the Vermont Department of Health. "We had a moist spring, and a long, hot summer could trigger a prolonged mosquito breeding season."
West Nile virus is transmitted from the bite of an infected mosquito. Vermont's first ...