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...Zinner: West Nile encephalitis looks a lot like any other encephalitis: Infection and inflammation in the brain leads to headache, fever, confusion, maybe seizures. In the worst cases, it can lead to coma or death...
...hospital. In Georgia, concerns are mounting over organ donations and blood bank supplies after four organ recipients were treated for symptoms of the virus. One of the recipients died from brain swelling associated with the disease. Overall, this has been a tough year as far as West Nile virus is concerned; when it first appeared during the summer of 1999, it was contained to New York City, Connecticut and New Jersey. Since then, cases have sprung up around the country, as far west as South Dakota and in southern states like Florida. This year, the CDC has confirmed more than...
...Does this new information mean we're back in the figurative woods? Should we all start hoping for an early frost and an end to mosquito season? As with many news stories, things on the West Nile front aren't nearly as bad as they may seem...
...TIME: It looks like West Nile virus is sticking around. How nervous should...
...predict we'll see the virus in California by late this year and early next year. There is an upside to the diffusion of West Nile: whenever a virus like this spreads, most people who are exposed to it will develop immunity and the rate of infection will decline. This is the usual expectation, and it seems to hold for this virus - three years ago we saw an outbreak in New York City, then last year, the infections spread south, and this year it's moving west...