Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Dona Ana Man's West Nile Death 1st of '09 By Journal Staff Report        A 45-year-old Doña Ana County man is New Mexico's first fatality from a West Nile virus infection this year, the state Department of Health announced Tuesday. He had been hospitalized since Aug. 1 and ...
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... .         Environment Secretary Ron Curry said illegal tire dumps can contribute to the spread of fires and create breeding grounds for diseases like West Nile virus and hantavirus.         Estancia Valley Solid Waste Authority will use its grant to host amnesty days at several locations in Bernalillo ...
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... we respond to an outbreak like the pandemic flu.”        Numerous diseases have jumped from animals to humans: anthrax, hemorrhaggic fevers, West Nile virus, smallpox, malaria, tuberculosis.        Researchers expect the rate to increase. Beugelsdijk lists reasons: Global warming reducing crop ...
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... do we respond to an outbreak like the pandemic flu."     Numerous diseases have jumped from animals to humans — anthrax, hemorrhaggic fevers, West Nile virus, smallpox, malaria, tuberculosis.     Researchers expect the rate to increase. Beugelsdijk lists reasons: Global warming reducing crop yields ...
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... calls from residents in the communities it protects concerned about mosquitoes.         The insects, which breed near water, carry diseases like West Nile virus, a type of encephalitis that can be fatal to humans, horses and birds. Cases have occurred in New Mexico every year since 2003.         Up ...
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... smugglers about $2,000. Once the fee was paid, prosecutors said, the immigrants were taken to their final destinations in the United States.     West Nile Shows Up in Colorado     FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Health officials in Larimer County say they have this year's first confirmed Colorado sample ...
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... rainfall," he said.         Officials won't know until later in the summer whether the bumper crop of mosquitoes will translate into cases of West Nile virus, which is spread only by certain species of mosquitoes. The high-risk season for West Nile spans July through October.         More mosquitoes ...
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... billboards, TV advertisements and other ads. There would still be money left, though, for public-health campaigns centering on air quality or the West Nile virus, councilors said.         Councilors also reduced funding for a Downtown teen center and made other changes.         The cuts will allow the ...
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...     Department officials contend that because of a tire's shape, occurrences of rodent and insect infestation — and related Hantavirus and West Nile Virus concerns — are amplified.         Detailed information is available online at www.nmenv.state.nm.us/wsb.        
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... to spread-out alternative energy developments.        In 2004, scientists said that the sage grouse decision could have gone either way. Now, with west Nile virus killing thousands of grouse, the Bush administration's determination to quickly bring on oil and gas, and fires destroying hundreds of ...
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