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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

This year's first West Nile cases confirmed

Georgia has its first two human cases of West Nile virus of the year. A 57-year-old in Gwinnett County near Atlanta … and a 52-year-old in Johnson County east of Macon. People get West Nile from infected mosquitoes, although most people don’t get sick. Last year there were nine known cases in Georgia, including one death.

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