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Resource News International, May, 2003

Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 15, 2003 (Resource News International via COMTEX)

ALBERTA AND B.C. RIPE FOR WEST NILE VIRUS 

Unseasonably warm, dry weather in Alberta and British Columbia has created the perfect conditions for a serious outbreak of West Nile virus, warned a Harvard Medical School expert yesterday.

In the United States, the explosive debut of the disease occurred in 1999 in New York City, after a dry winter and a summer heat wave, which accelerated the cycle of transmission.

A winter drought and relatively warm weather in western Canada and the US should have public-health officials on alert, said Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.

"The antenna...

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