According to CDC, avian, animal or mosquito WNV infections have been reported to from the following states in 2007: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Human cases have been reported in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.
View a map of West Nile virus activity reported to CDC as of Sept. 4, 2007.
TEXAS
Mosquitoes are multiplying after the heavy rains and state health officials have confirmed that two people have died from West Nile Virus in Texas.
A person in El Paso and one in Travis County died after contracting the virus.
The San Antonio Health Department says four more people are now suffering from the West Nile Virus in Bexar County. One man has been hospitalized.
Source: www.woai.com
GEORGIA
A 56-year-old Atlanta resident checked into a local hospital August 21 complaining of aches, pains and fever, the patient became the first case this year of West Nile Virus in Fulton County and the fifth reported case in metro Atlanta.
Cherokee and Gwinnett counties have reported one case each, and DeKalb has reported two. Statewide, there have been 11 cases of the virus.
The Fulton county patient recovered and checked out of the hospital August 27, health officials said.
Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
ILLINOIS
Five new human cases of West Nile virus have been reported, including a teenage boy in Bureau County who became sick in mid-August.
In addition, Peoria County reported its first positive sampling for West Nile virus this year with a blue jay collected Aug. 27. LaSalle County reported its first sample with a crow collected Aug. 28.
There have been 19 human cases statewide, according to the state's public health department.
Source: PJStar.com
CALIFORNIA
An 86-year-old man from the San Diego area became the first person to be diagnosed with locally acquired West Nile virus this year, public health officials said Tuesday.
The patient apparently got infected when mosquitoes bit him in La Mesa in late August. He remains hospitalized, according to the county's Health and Human Services Agency. The region may have another locally acquired case, but medical experts can't give a firm diagnosis until confirmation from state laboratories.
The first patient, an East County resident, is being treated for meningoencephalitis, or swelling of the brain.
LOUISIANA
Eight people in seven parishes have been infected with the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, bringing this year's total to 12, state health officials said.
Of the eight cases with symptoms, six are classified as neuroinvasive — the more serious presentation of the disease — and two are considered cases of flu-like West Nile fever, according to a report released Tuesday by the state Department of Health and Hospitals
Source: Houston Chronicle