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Mosquito Surveillance and Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of West Nile Virus, New York State
1 Aug 2001
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West Nile VirusDuring the summer and fall of 1999, the metropolitan area of New York City witnessed an outbreak of human encephalitis caused by West Nile (WN) virus (1-3).This outbreak was the first evidence of WN virus infection in the Western Hemisphere (4-8) and resulted in 62 laboratoryconfirmed human cases, 7 fatal (8).Evidence of WN virus infection was documented in mosquitoes, birds, horses, and humans,...
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