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- Hello Jeff,
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- Nancy, an Attorney who is a regular poster to my board
and very reliable, has posted this. If the crows died from the West Nile
virus, please tell me, how did it get to Iowa? Remember, Ames, Iowa was
where the first samples of West Nile went last year. The USDA/APHIS has
the big lab there.
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- Sure looks like this disease is being released on the
public.
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- Maybe a mosquito got into a plane and took a ride to
Iowa to have dinner? Seriously, how could the virus skip most of the Midwest
and break out in Iowa? If we get hit with hurricanes, it will make for
a really bad mosquito season at the end of August and most assuredly human
cases.
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- There is one other possibility, the Iowa birds died from
the recombiant Highland J/EEE.
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- Patty
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- Iowa Health Officials Track Dead Crows
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- By Colleen Krantz - Register Staff Writer http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788996/12029241.html
8-8-00
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- IOWA CITY, Ia. - Dead crows are likely to herald the
arrival in Iowa of the West Nile virus, which has spooked East Coast residents
with a few fatalities.
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- When the birds die, the Iowa Department of Public Health
plans to know about it.
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- In a few weeks, the department will have state and county
conservation workers hunting for dead crows, one of the first indicators
of the arrival of the sometimes deadly mosquito-carried virus, said Russell
Currier, environmental epidemiologist with the Iowa Department of Public
Health.
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- The project will be backed by a new $90,000 grant from
the federal government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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- The project, which involves the University of Iowa and
Iowa State University, will allow public health officials to track the
arrival of the virus fairly quickly, Currier said.
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- The West Nile virus caused a panic on the East Coast
last summer after it led to the deaths of seven people. The virus, which
can be transported by birds, was first detected in the Western Hemisphere
last year.
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- New York City had the first recognized U.S. cases of
the illness. This summer it has been found in other parts of New York,
Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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- The federal government is "taking this one seriously
because there were several deaths from West Nile and the surveillance from
birds and chickens suggests it is spreading beyond the New York area,"
said Mike Loeffelholz of the U of I Hygienic Laboratory.
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- West Nile symptoms include high fever, stomach problems,
muscle aches, headache and confusion. In serious cases - generally among
children, the elderly or those with weaker immune systems - the virus can
cause a deadly swelling of the brain known as encephalitis.
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- Any dead crows found in Iowa will be sent to ISU, where
certain organs will be removed for analysis at the U of I's hygienic lab.
Chicken flocks already kept throughout Iowa for monitoring mosquito-carried
illnesses will also be watched for signs of the West Nile virus.
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- "It's just a matter of time for it to spread through
the mosquito population to reach Iowa," Loeffelholz said.
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- There is no reason to panic, however, as some East Coast
residents have, he said.
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- In New York, sales of gauze nets and devices designed
to kill mosquitos have jumped. Some residents have been cautious about
spending time outdoors.
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- But Mary Gilchrist, director of the U of I hygienic lab,
said that "in many instances, Iowans don't overreact like other people
do."
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- The best thing to do is use bug spray, Loeffelholz said.
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