Health Department Biweekly Reports Folder 0066, 2000-2001

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THE CITY OF NEW YORK

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER / 'c.J' . _JI#lø;v/i;tio

NEAL L. COHEN, M.O. COMMISSIONER ;1 M TEL (212) 788-5261 125 WORTH STREET 1 2000 `EP 2 FAX (212) 964-0472 NEW YORK, NY 100 13 00 —00gIq DEPUTY MAYOR OPERATIONS September 18, 2000

TO: Honorable Rudolph W. Giuliani MAYOR /c. •.,e CG~~ FROM: Neal L. Cohen, M.D. Commissioner

SUBJECT: Bi-weekly Report. -- (August 27 — September 9)

CRITICAL EVENTS & EMERGING ISSUES

West Nile Virus Activities West Nile Virus During this period, there were additional human cases of human cases to 11 in reported by the Department, bringing the total number of New York City this year. The laboratory tests were performed at the sent to the Department's Public Health Laboratories, and specimens have been for further confirmation. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 61 year-old On Friday, September 1, the Department announced that a who The individual, Staten Island man has tested positive for West Nile virus. became ill on August 4 with lives in the Woodrow section of Staten Island, to a local hospital on muscle weakness and encephalitis. He was admitted 2, the Department August 6 and was released on August 11. On September announced a 53 year-old woman from the Bulls Head section of Staten Island, became ill with encephalitis had tested positive for West Nile virus. The woman August 28. She is still on August 23 and was admitted to the hospital on hospitalized but improving. On Tuesday, September 12, the Department West Nile virus announced that three additional individuals had tested positive for was staying in Canarsie, in New York City: a 77 year-old man from Florida who 54 year-old man Brooklyn, is hospitalized in stable and improving condition; a

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