West Nile Virus Here to Stay.

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After 10 years, experts say West Nile here to stay

Monday, July 27, 2009 By DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@...

Ever since the West Nile virus suddenly emerged in New York in the summer of

1999, scientists have been riding an epidemiological learning curve, coming up

to speed on a virus that has killed 1,131 people nationwide in its first decade

here.

The chilling news: There's no vaccine, and people who are severely affected - 1

in every 150 - develop a high fever, stupor, convulsions and coma. Four Long

Island residents died last year of West Nile disease. No one knows what will

happen this year, but wary officials note that a bumper crop of mosquitoes is in

flight.

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