The new cases are a 51-year-old Doña Ana County woman who was hospitalized with encephalitis, a 36-year-old Grant County man who had West Nile fever and a 57-year-old Bernalillo County man who was hospitalized with meningitis. There have been 13 human cases of West Nile virus in New Mexico so far this year in Chaves, Doña Ana, San Juan, Roosevelt, Bernalillo, Grant, Rio Arriba and Socorro counties. In very rare cases, about one in 150, people infected with West Nile Virus will develop severe illness including meningitis or encephalitis. New Mexico had 33 cases with two fatalities in 2005, 88 cases with four fatalities in 2004 and 209 cases with four fatalities in 2003. Read More

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