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CDC: West Nile cases increasing
U.S. West Nile virus cases, deaths rose in 2006
Thu Jun 7, 2007 6:52PM EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. cases of encephalitis and meningitis caused by West Nile virus rose last year to the highest level since 2003, and the death toll jumped from 2005, federal health officials reported on Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 1,491 cases of encephalitis, meningitis and a rare syndrome caused by the virus called acute flaccid paralysis were reported in the United States in 2006.
This marked a 14-percent increase in these cases from 2005 and the largest number reported since 2003, the CDC said in a report. States with the most cases of these diseases were Texas, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana and Mississippi.
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