Ridecamp: [RC] Fwd: FW: West Nile virus hits Colorado

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West Nile virus hits Colorado

      By The Associated Press

      August 15, 2002

      LITTLETON - State health officials confirmed Wednesday that West Nile virus has been found in northern Colorado, but said further tests were being

      conducted by federal scientists.

      One chicken and two horses in Weld County tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus, said Jane Norton, executive director of the state Department of

      Public Health and Environment.

      "We knew it was just a matter of days before we'd see it in Colorado, and it's here," she said. "We've been on the watch.

      It's been traveling west." A dead crow found in Weld County also may have had the virus, she said.

      Further tests were being conducted at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she said.

      No cases involving humans have been reported in Colorado, Norton said.

      Seven people in Louisiana and two in Mississippi have died from West Nile virus this year, and the CDC has said 145 people have been infected in six

      states and the District of Columbia.

      The virus had been found in a total of 37 states before the cases in Colorado.
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