| ■ U.S. West Nile Infections Reach 3,022 | 2007.10.22 |
| So far this year, there have been 3,022 reported cases of human West Nile virus illness in 42 states, with 76 fatalities, according to a report published Thursday in this week's issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of the cases reported so far this year, 1,646 (55 percent) occurred males and the median age of patients was 51 years, with an age range of 15 months to 97 years. There have been 265 presumptive West Nile viremic donors (PVDs) reported: 46 in California, 37 in Texas, 24 in North Dakota, 21 in South Dakota, 20 in Colorado, 17 in Minnesota, 16 in Oklahoma, 13 in Montana, 12 in Mississippi, 11 in Missouri, seven in Arizona, six in Ohio, five each in Iowa and Utah, four each in Kentucky and New Mexico, three each in Puerto Rico and Wyoming, two each in Indiana and Pennsylvania, and one each in Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Of those reported PVD cases, 52 subsequently developed West Nile fever and two people developed neuroinvasive illness. |