{"id":138,"date":"2012-08-30T04:04:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T04:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westnile.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2012-08-30T04:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T04:04:39","slug":"us-west-nile-virus-cases-up-40-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/westnile.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"US West Nile Virus Cases Up 40 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beta.westnile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/08\/west-nile-spray.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beta.westnile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/08\/west-nile-spray-300x220.jpg?resize=300%2C220\" alt=\"\" title=\"west-nile-spray\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-139\" style=\"margin: 5px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westnile.com\/?s=cdc\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> reports that cases of West Nile virus were up 40% from last week.  As of this posting, 1,590 individuals are infected, 66 of which were fatal.<\/p>\n<p>Lyle Petersen, director of CDC&#8217;s Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, reiterated previous warnings that this year may yield the highest number of cases ever since the disease was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westnile.com\/health\/diseases-conditions\/west-nile-virus\/west-nile-virus-in-the-united-states\/\">first found in the United States in 1999<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think the numbers may come close to or even exceed the total number of cases reported in 2002 and 2003,&#8221; both of which were severe West Nile virus years, Petersen said during a conference call. More than 260 deaths were reported in those years.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials expected the West Nile virus, which humans contracted through mosquito bites, to continue to peak into September and early October, when the disease typically reaches its peak.<\/p>\n<p>Over 70% of the cases have been reported in six states, with Texas being the most infected at 45% followed by South Dakota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/story\/2012-08-28\/west-nile-virus-cases-increase\/57402754\/1\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that cases of West Nile virus were up 40% from last week. As of this posting, 1,590 individuals are infected, 66 of which were fatal. Lyle Petersen, director of CDC&#8217;s Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, reiterated previous warnings that this year may yield the highest number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"c2c-post-author-ip":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,68,102,88,103],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-nile-virus","tag-cdc-data","tag-cdc-reports","tag-west-nile-2012","tag-west-nile-united-states","tag-west-nile-virus-cdc-report"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8GtQ9-2e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/westnile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/westnile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/westnile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westnile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westnile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/westnile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/westnile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westnile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westnile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}