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Profile: West Nile virus
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ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
03-05-2001
Profile: West Nile virus
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
West Nile virus may be a more serious problem in the US than health officials thought. When the virus came to the US in 1999, health officials say that 59 people in the New York City area were hospitalized. Now federal researchers have looked at infection rates along the Eastern seaboard, and they've found that the virus has made about 1,400 people sick. The Centers for Disease Control has ...
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