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Health Department Biweekly Reports Folder 0066, 2000-2001

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Archival folder label for Health Department biweekly reports related to World Trade Center activities from 2000 to 2001.

NYC-WTC_000138069–000138106

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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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FJ p R l l 0 l i D 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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