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Subject: [WNV-L] Human Cases, Israel
Date:
July 12, 2003
Posted by:
Environmental Risk Analysis Program (envrisk@cornell.edu)
Excerpted from ProMED-mail (Id: 20030712.1712) http://www.promedmail.org Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 Source: Israel's Ministry of Health press release, 9 Jul 2003 [translated from Hebrew, edited] http://www.health.gov.il/news/news.asp?Id=132 Since the beginning of summer 2003, 2 new cases of West Nile fever have been recorded [in Israel]. At the beginning of May, A 91-year-old man from Kibbutz Ein Shemer [central Israel] was hospitalized in the Hillel Yaffe hospital, Hadera, due to elevated temperature, weakness, and headaches. He recovered and was released in good condition. Later he was hospitalised again and died, but according to the physicians his death is not related to WNF. Recent laboratory tests have confirmed that he had undergone earlier infection with the West Nile virus. The other case involved a 81-year-old woman from Kiryat Bialik [near Haifa] who has been hospitalized in the Poriyya hospital, where she was found infected with WNV on 7 Jul 2003. The patient has recovered and subsequently been released from hospital. [Byline: Ruby Shteinberg, MOH spokeperson] [In previous years, most WNF cases were recorded in Israel during August - October. - Mod.AS] [see also: 2002 ---- West Nile virus, human - Israel 20020816.5065 West Nile virus, human - Israel (02) 20020924.5389 West Nile virus, mosquitoes - Israel 20020516.4234 West Nile virus, mosquitoes - Israel (04) 20020801.4910 2001 ---- West Nile virus, human - Israel 20010802.1510 2000 ---- West Nile virus, human case - Israel 20000901.1469 West Nile virus, human cases - Israel (08) 20000927.1667 1999 ---- West Nile virus, geese - Israel 19991123.2076 West Nile virus, geese - Israel (02) 19991208.2132 1998 ---- West Nile virus disease, storks - Israel 19981218.2406]