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Funds Mutual Vanguard For reasons that health officials cannot explain, this year's victims of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus are younger than usual. The median age for this year's infections is 55, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention here said in a report Thursday. In previous years, the median was in the mid-60s.

West Nile Virus causes some victims to become seriously ill with encephalitis or meningitis, according to Cuyahoga County health officials. But many people have been infected without knowing. "Many victims have no symptoms and experience no ill effects from West Nile Virus, " Picker said. "Upon exposure, the chances of contracting West Nile Virus are rare." He also said that pesticides are sprayed 20 feet from a truck in the street and never make it to back yards.

Funds Mutual Top "The reason patients seem to be younger this year is unknown and certainly something we're looking into," the CDC's Dr. Lyle Petersen said.

. (AXcess News) Reports of West Nilevirus are rising on the West Coast even though fall's cooler weather is dampening the reproduction of mosquitos there. San Francisco reported its third case of West Nile virus today. aged man tested positive for West Nile virus but that he was recovering at his home. The other two who contracted West Nile virus, aged man and woman, were likely to have contracted West Nile virus from visits to the Sacramento area, health officials said.

Funds Market Money However, CDC officials said the declining median age is not a cause for immediate concern.

In a laboratory test, the researchers injected 12 monkeys with the combined virus vaccine and injected eight other monkeys with either the West Nile virus or the dengue virus. Six weeks later, all 20 monkeys were injected with West Nile virus. The dozen that received the combined virus vaccine developed antibodies that successfully protected the animals from the West Nile virus. Human clinical trials with the vaccine are to begin this year, Dr. Brian Murphy, a researcher in NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, said Monday.

Funds In Investing Mutual The CDC has reported 112 human cases this year, more than half in the last week.

"If the weather in San Francisco gets warmer over the next few weeks, we anticipate increased mosquito breeding activity, " said Bhatia. A girl from Huntington Beach is the first juvenile from Orange County to contract the West Nile virus this year, health officials announced Tuesday. So far, 15 cases of West Nile virus have been reported in Orange County this year. California's number of West Nile cases topped 800 on Friday, with Sacramento County still leading all counties in the state 170 cases.

Fidelity Funds Mutual Most of those cases were in Louisiana, which has reported 71 infections and five deaths in the nation's biggest outbreak since the disease was first detected in New York in 1999.

Meanwhile, Arkansas health officials reported the first suspected human case of West Nile virus in the state Monday. Dr. Fay Boozman, director of the Arkansas Department of Health, would not identify a man thought to be infected with the potentially fatal virus, Louisiana borderline. Four people in Louisiana have died this summer of West Nile, like symptoms and sometimes potentially fatal swelling of the brain. Most of the victims have been older people or those with weak immune systems.

Funds Load Mutual No A central Mississippi man who died Thursday likely was killed by the West Nile virus, state health officer Ed Thompson said. He said more testing was needed to confirm preliminary results. The death would be the first outside of Louisiana in this outbreak.

Funds Investment Mississippi has reported more than 30 human cases of the disease. The CDC also reported human infections in Texas and Illinois. Cases also were announced this week in Alabama and Washington, D.C., but came too late to be included in the CDC report.

Funds Retirement In addition, Illinois reported its second human case Thursday, a 57-year-old man who became critically ill with encephalitis.

Funds Trust Kansas officials said Thursday that the virus has spread to their state, where it was found in a dead horse. In Missouri, 13 horses that died from encephalitis--a swelling of the brain--also have tested positive for West Nile at the University of Missouri's Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory in Columbia.

Closed End Funds On Thursday, the CDC announced that an additional $10 million will be sent to states to fight infected mosquitoes. The agency already handed out $17 million a year, but as more states requested help, the fund didn't cover requests. About $3.7 million will be earmarked for Louisiana and Mississippi, the hardest hit states.

Funds Ohio Unclaimed Most people bitten by infected mosquitoes will suffer no more than flu-like symptoms, but the weak and the elderly can get encephalitis, a potentially fatal brain inflammation.

Aim Funds Petersen said advanced age remains the biggest risk factor for getting sick from the bite of an infected mosquito. Health officials do not compile statistics on any health problems the younger West Nile victims had, but suspect that many had conditions that weakened their immune systems.

College Free Funds Grant Men made up 60% of this year's West Nile cases, consistent with years past. Petersen said that is probably because men spend more time outdoors.

Active Funds Index Investor Gary Simon, an infectious-disease expert from George Washington University in Washington, said doctors may be more aware of the disease and likely to look for it in patients with less serious symptoms, explaining the lower median age.

Electronic Funds Transfer "It may be because we're testing people more," he said. "It's the only possible explanation from the information I've seen so far."

Ci Funds Since its first appearance in the United States, the virus has been detected in 35 states and the District of Columbia.

Funds India Mutual State and local officials have boosted mosquito-spraying efforts and urged people to protect themselves by using insect repellent and wearing long sleeves.

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