CDC - Clinical Characteristics of the West Nile Fever Outbreak, Israel, 2000

	*West Nile Virus* Clinical Characteristics of the West Nile Fever Outbreak, Israel, 2000 Michal Y. Chowers,* Ruth Lang,* Faris Nassar,† Debora Ben-David,‡, Michael Giladi§, Eitan Rubinshtein,‡ Avi Itzhaki,¶ Josef Mishal,# Yardena Siegman-Igra,§ Ruth Kitzes,** Neora Pick,†† Zvi Landau,‡‡ Dana Wolf,§§ Hanna Bin,¶¶ Ella Mendelson,¶¶ Silvio D. Pitlik,## and Miriam Weinberger## Meir Medical Center, Kfar Sava, Israel; †Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel; ‡Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel; §Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel; ¶Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zrifin, Israel; #Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel; *Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; ††Bnei-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; ‡‡Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel; §§Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; ¶¶Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Tel Hashomer, Israel; and ##Rabin Medical Center, Belinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel

	Back to article Figure 1. Age distribution of 233 hospitalized patients with West Nile fever. Fatal cases are shown in hatched bars.

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