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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926024/posts
New SARS outbreak feared at Whitby hospital (Toronto)
TheStar.com ^ | HELEN BRANSWELL

[IYAAYAS]

Good work.

The shark attacks of a few summers ago turned out to be media hype, the numbers were in line with the average. Is this true with these diseases? Are we just better at identifying them or are there really more? If there really are more it seems to me something else besides randomness is going on. What is it? Terrorism, EOTW or just bad luck? This is just getting plain weird.

Is the term "the quickening" a biblical term?

[_Jim]

Here's an excellent resource on WNV and includes Weekly Case Counts Cumulative Case Count charts:

What's Going on with the WEST NILE VIRUS
Historical Summary

Human Cases & History of the West Nile Virus

And includes such resources as this:

Reported deaths in West Nile virus outbreaks during the last decade
Year	Location	# of Cases Studied	Deaths (%)	Reference
1994	Algeria	13	13.3	Le Guenno et al. 1996
1996	South Romainia	393	4.3	Tsai et al. 1998
1999	New York	61	11.5	CDC 1999 , CDC 2000
1999	South Russia	1000	4.0	Lvov et al. 2000
2000	New York, New Jersey	19	10.5	Marfin et al. 2000
2000	Israel	417	8.4	Weinberger et al. 2001
Source: Weinberger et al. 2001. West Nile Fever Outbreak, Israel, 2000: Epidemiologic Aspects. EID 7(4): 686-691.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for your work on this thread.

I think there are a number of diseases that we've not had here in this hemisphere, that we're going to be seeing more and more of...monkeypox is only an example. The poster above who pointed out that we want someone to blame, instead of realizing that stuff happens because this IS a small world, is right in my opinion.