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WEST NILE MOSQUITO BITE RISKIEST FOR OLDER ADULTS
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MAIA DAVIS, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-13-2001
WEST NILE MOSQUITO BITE RISKIEST FOR OLDER ADULTS -- HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY KIDS
FACE LITTLE DANGER
By MAIA DAVIS, Staff Writer
Date: 05-13-2001, Sunday
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday
For two summers now, parents have feared that a single mosquito
bite could make their child the latest victim of West Nile encephalitis.
But evidence shows the danger to children may be low.
The story is different for people over 50. Older adults -- even
seemingly robust ones -- appear to be more susceptible than the young to
becoming ...
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