"The city will continue to take action ... confirmed to have been infected with West Nile virus. The virus, which killed seven people in the New York metropolitan area last summer, is spread ...

But, last year's cases were limited to three areas -- New York City, Westchester County and Nassau County. As of Thursday, the Health Department has confirmed West Nile virus in 119 birds and 38 ...

Since 1999, when West Nile virus was first isolated in New York, there have been 43 human cases of West Nile virus identified in Suffolk County as well as four deaths attributable to West Nile virus.

"The number of mosquitoes with West Nile Virus activity at this time is higher ... The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ...

In 1999, in the New York area, the crow population crashed by about 90 per cent in a few months. Ten days to two weeks after the initial blood meal, the West Nile virus reaches the mosquito's ...

In August 1999, Dr. Deborah Asnis, an infectious-disease clinician in Queens, New York, reported two cases ... that ultimately identified West Nile virus as the cause of the ongoing outbreaks ...

And when mosquitoes suck more they may be more likely to transmit pathogens like the West Nile Virus (WNV ... decades since its American debut in New York in 1999, WNV has spread quite widely.

DOHMH's Zika response relied upon emergency capacities first developed in 1999 in response to West Nile virus and notably expanded ... and supplies supported by city, state, and federal funds.

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Transmission of West Nile virus through organ transplantation was suspected. We identified West Nile virus infection in the organ donor and in all four organ recipients. Encephalitis developed in ...

On September 5, 2008, the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center laboratory reported that 13 (86%) of 15 specimens testing positive for WNV IgM antibodies at the commercial ...

The first mosquitoes found in Contra Costa County to test positive for West Nile virus have been discovered in the East County city of Oakley ... at the start of the new year.