Woman Has West Nile Virus, Officials Say
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From Times Wire Reports
A 73-year-old woman has contracted the West Nile virus, New York City health officials said.
Residential areas of the city’s northern Staten Island borough, where the woman lives, will be sprayed with the pesticide Anvil, Department of Health spokesman Greg Butler said.
The woman was hospitalized July 31, suffering from headaches, fever and muscle weakness.
Since 1999, the virus has killed nine people in New York and New Jersey. The woman, whose name was not released, is the first New Yorker to have contracted the disease this year.
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