1. A case in point is the encephalitis outbreak that is blamed for at least three deaths in New York City. 2. He added that for this reason, the encephalitis outbreak has been one of the most difficult public health crises in his career. 3. The warm, wet spring led to encephalitis outbreaks on the U.S. east coast. 4. This year, his researchers investigated an equine encephalitis epidemic in Michigan and a LaCrosse encephalitis outbreak in West Virginia. 5. An encephalitis outbreak that killed three elderly residents in two New York City boroughs has prompted an aggressive citywide pesticide dusting to kill disease-carrying mosquitoes. 6. At about the same time, officials in New York and Connecticut were spraying pesticides to prevent the spread of the West Nile encephalitis outbreak. 7. Brain tissue from victims of the encephalitis outbreak has been undergoing analysis at the CDC and at the Emerging Diseases Laboratory at the University of California at Irvine. 8. City officials downplayed a report that suggests the CIA is investigating whether the recent West Nile-like encephalitis outbreak was deliberately triggered by Iraqi bioterrorists. 9. Movement of horses across the border with Malaysia has been halted because of fears the Japanese encephalitis outbreak affecting pigs could spread to racehorses, it was reported Saturday. |