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THE CITY OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
JAN 2 4 2001
:•'!~ ~ OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER
01-00111
DEPUTY MAYOR OPERATIONS
NEAL L COHEN, M.D.
125 WORTH STREET COMMISSIONER
NEW YORK, NY 10013 TEL (212) 786-5261
NYC.GOV/HEALTH FAx (212) 964-0472
January 23, 2001
TO: Honorable Rudolph W. Giuliani
MAYOR
FROM: Neal L. Cohen, M.D.
Commissioner
SUBJECT: Bi-weekly Report -- (December 31 — January 13)
EMERGING ITEMS
Brooklyn Woman Dies from WNV ✓
On January 10, the Department announced that an 87 year-old woman who
previously tested positive for West Nile virus died in December 2000. The womanTwtlo
was earlier reported as testing positive for the virus on August 25,2000, had been
hospitalized in a coma since August 2000. This is the second reported death of a
person who tested positive for West Nile virus in 2000; the other individual, an 82 year-
old man, died in New Jersey.
As a result of the Department's active surveillance program, 530 suspected
cases of viral meningo-encephalitis were reported and tested for WNV in New ~City
iris Of the suspected cases, 14 persons tested positive, including lu from Staten
irom urooKlyn (including the deceased), 1 from Manhattan, and 1 from
Queens. Ages ranged from 36 to 87 years. with the median age being 62 years. Eight
cases occurred in men, and 6 cases occurred in women, li t tnethirteen surviving
cases, a 77 year-old man is currently in a rehabilitation facility and the others are home
recovering. In addition to the New York City cases, five cases of West Nile virus,
including the one death, were reported in New Jersey.
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