HORSE PLAGUE SPREADS PERILS HUMANS.
"Scores in Texas Hospitals Harlingen, Tex - A mosquito-carried disease that acts like sleeping sickness in horses and produces flu-type symptoms in people spread through Texas on Wednesday, including the state's first confirmed cases in humans."
The number of affected animals was increasing so fast officials could not keep up with all the new cases.
Dr. John Copenhaver, director of the joint Hidalgo-Cameron County Health Department said the disease has been confirmed in three persons at Mercy Hospital in Brownsville and that a total of 34 persons in the lower Rio Grande Valley are hospitalized with "clinically observed" symptoms of it .
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HORSE PLAGUE SPREADS PERILS HUMANS.
"Scores in Texas Hospitals Harlingen, Tex - A mosquito-carried disease that acts like sleeping sickness in horses and produces flu-type symptoms in people spread through Texas on Wednesday, including the state's first confirmed cases in humans."
The number of affected animals was increasing so fast officials could not keep up with all the new cases.
Dr. John Copenhaver, director of the joint Hidalgo-Cameron County Health Department said the disease has been confirmed in three persons at Mercy Hospital in Brownsville and that a total of 34 persons in the lower Rio Grande Valley are hospitalized with "clinically observed" symptoms of it .
Imprint | Iuniverse, Inc. |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | December 2008 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | December 2008 |
Authors | George Vincent |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 220 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-595-48563-5 |
Barcode | 9780595485635 |
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LSN | 0-595-48563-4 |