Not impossible, but not easily done. The Rocky Mountains create completely different watersheds East and West.
Posted on 09/07/2002 12:29:07 PM PDT by Sabertooth
Not impossible, but not easily done. The Rocky Mountains create completely different watersheds East and West.
Not impossible, but not easily done. The Rocky Mountains create completely different watersheds East and West.
If you think it's better in Extended or Front Page News, I'll go with your judgement.
West Nile Virus Found In Calif.
Saturday September 7, 2002 1:00 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A West Nile infection in a woman here could mark the virus' cross-country spread, but health officials are baffled at how she might have contracted the illness locally.The woman tested positive for West Nile in preliminary laboratory results, state health officials said Friday.
The results of further tests will not be known for another week. However, county health officials were calling it a ``probable case of locally acquired West Nile virus infection.''
``The virus' arrival in California is anticipated, but unexpected at this time since it is not present in any contiguous states,'' said Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, director and chief medical officer of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
The woman had a mild case of meningitis, which is associated with the virus, in early August and later recovered.
The unidentified woman had not traveled outside the region, meaning the infection, if confirmed, occurred locally, county Department of Health Services spokeswoman Maria Iacobo said. Officials provided no further information about the woman, including her age or where she lives.
Since West Nile was first detected in New York in 1999, the virus has been found in humans in 27 other states and the District of Columbia.
While its push westward had been expected, there have been no confirmed cases of humans contracting the disease west of the Rocky Mountains.
In two other cases of confirmed or suspected West Nile virus along the Pacific coast, the victims are thought to have been infected in states where the mosquito-borne virus is already known to be present.
In Oregon, doctors in Salem were treating a woman who also has symptoms consistent with West Nile and became sick in Michigan.
A Washington man was diagnosed with the virus, which health officials said he contracted in Louisiana.
Nationwide this year, there have been 954 confirmed human cases of the virus, including 43 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Maybe the Feds will blame this on Hatfill as well.
The Government can never admit that we have been attacked by biological agents by terrorists who we have absolutely no recourse against.
Apparently, the USA can be be attacked again and again and must go begging to the UN to ask for permission to retaliate, if we can even find a target to retaliate against.
I was talking about this possibility the other day, and that was my best gues as to how the virus might head West.
Nationwide this year, there have been 954 confirmed human cases of the virus, including 43 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.From: http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/wncount.htm:
| State | Laboratory- Positive Human Cases | Deaths |
| Alabama | 14 | |
| Arkansas | 5 | |
| California | 1 | |
| Connecticut | 1 | |
| District of Columbia | 1 | |
| Florida | 3 | |
| Georgia | 6 | 2 |
| Illinois | 224 | 9 |
| Indiana | 14 | |
| Iowa | 1 | |
| Kentucky | 10 | 2 |
| Louisiana | 222 | 9 |
| Maryland | 4 | |
| Massachusetts | 5 | |
| Michigan | 47 | 3 |
| Minnesota | 4 | |
| Mississippi | 119 | 3 |
| Missouri | 52 | 1 |
| Nebraska | 13 | 1 |
| New York | 16 | 2 |
| North Dakota | 4 | 1 |
| Ohio | 73 | 5 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | |
| South Carolina | 1 | |
| South Dakota | 10 | |
| Tennessee | 20 | 4 |
| Texas | 67 | 1 |
| Virginia | 5 | |
| Wisconsin | 9 | |
|
Totals |
954 | 43 |
Also see Daily Case Count Archive for history of case counts.
For more information, visit this CDC West Nile Virus site.
How can someone NOT have a mosquito bite this time of the year?
Birds are already migrating from the MidWest over this part of the country. I've seen ducks and geese already and we just got the West Nile virus here.
What is even more worrisome is that WN seems to be spreading just as well in dry and arid regions, where breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitos would seem to be few and far between.
And also that WN isn't the only part of this picture, by a long shot.
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