West Nile virus cases continue to climb, CDC says
Dead mosquitoes are lined up waiting to be sorted at the Dallas County mosquito lab in Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Texas accounts for 40 percent of the country's West Nile virus cases, the CDC announced Wednesday.
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Last week, the CDC announced 2,636 cases of the virus with 118 deaths - representing a 19 percent rise in reported cases over the week.
The newly released numbers are the highest reported to CDC through the third week in September since 2003. The worst year for disease saw nearly 3,000 severe cases and 284 deaths, the Associated Press previously reported. Previous week-to-week statistics announced by the CDC were as high as 30 percent increases in cases.
Two thirds of all West Nile virus cases have been come from seven states - Texas, Mississippi, Michigan, South Dakota, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and California - and almost 40 percent of all cases have been reported from Texas.
(Learn more about the West Nile virus by watching the video on the left.)West Nile virus usually occurs in North America from the summer through the fall, according to the CDC. It spreads mostly through infected mosquitoes (which become infected from feeding off birds) but in rare cases can spread through transfusions, transplants, breastfeeding and during pregnancy from mother through baby.
About 80 percent of people won't feel symptoms if they are infected, and 20 percent may develop "West Nile fever" or non-neuroinvasive disease, with symptoms like fever, headache, body aches, nausea, vomiting and sometimes a skin rash on the chest, stomach and back. Those symptoms typically develop between 3 and 14 days after infection, and may last for several weeks with resulting fatigue lasting even longer.
But, CDC estimates suggest approximately one out of 150 people infected will develop severe neuroinvasive illness, characterized by high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis. These symptoms can last for weeks and the neurological damage may be permanent. People over 50 are at the highest risk for developing a severe illness.
West Nile Virus outbreak 2012
The best way to reduce risk for West Nile is to reduce risk of mosquito bites, the CDC said. The agency recommends using an using insect repellent containing an EPA-registered active ingredient, wearing long sleeves and pants during dusk and dawn, making sure windows have screens and emptying puddles of stagnant water where mosquitoes may breed.
The CDC has more on West Nile virus.
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Killer viruses are best dealt with by killing them the moment they attack us (say the moment any killer viruses infected mosquitoes bite us, or we are exposed to any Colds, Flus, AIDS, Yosemite and any other killer viruses)... And that is quite simple...
There is no real treatment for West Nile, or for any other killer viruses, but there is a more than real Prevention... That works like magic... I call it Immunizer...
If everybody on Earth does it, there will never again be even a single case of West Nile, or any other killer viruses infection... The Immunizer is the Escape of the World...
Two years ago the most incredible discovery was made - The Immunizer - by far more powerful immunity booster than anything else on Earth...
Doing it, I stay healthy all the time. For me Cold and Flu Season does not exist. I wear my summer tees and shorts all the time, even at air temperature of -15C (5F). I guess nobody else on Earth can walk at this winter air temperature clad in summer clothes... (Having ditched the scarves and parkas forever)... I feel (and everybody would) like Iron Man, for I got the Iron Constitution...
Everybody Relax! West Nile and Yosemite Outbreaks can be completely avoided. Killing mosquitoes and deer mice is not the way out. The way out is killing the viruses by doing the immunizer. No antiviral vaccines or therapies are needed any more. Kids and adults can rest assured. West Nile, Yosemite, Colds, Flus, AIDS and any other killer viruses on Earth can be destroyed very easy...
I can save Texas, the USA, Canada, the UK, Europe and the rest of the world from any killer viruses spread (causing Epidemics and Pandemics). Everybody - kids and adults - can become absolutely untouchable for any possibly existing killer viruses on Earth. The weapon for their destruction is the Immunizer - The Deadliest on Earth, The T-Rex Virus Killer - The Most Powerful Immunity Booster. No killer viruses got any chance against the tremendous power of the immunizer - they just die the moment they touch you...
The Immunizer is just a simple exercise, but is The Complete Colds/Flus/AIDS/West Nile/Yosemite/Cancers Prevention - normally done for a minute a day for kids and adults as the full prevention of the major plagues of civilization. If done for 2 - 3 minutes a day, it guarantees a very fast recovery for those infected by Colds, Flus, AIDS, West Nile, Yosemite, Any other killer viruses and from any types of Cancer...
Guaranteeing everybody the Iron Constitution, the immunizer guarantees a considerable Life Extension... Once your body does not have to fight viruses...
I will disclose my Dream Immunizer (The Deadliest Virus Killer on Earth and Cancers Preventer and Healer) to everybody in the world, if I am paid 200 Billion US Dollars (or BP) and all of us - kids and adults will stay absolutely healthy all the time, all our lives, even if we are directly exposed to any possibly existing viruses and cancers on Earth - mutant, deadly and all the like...