The Cleveland Department of Public Health (CDPH) is reporting its first confirmed West Nile Virus (WNV) case of 2012. WNV encephalitis was confirmed in a 48-year-old Cleveland man who is currently hospitalized. The Cleveland case brings Ohio’s reported WNV infections up to two cases. The first human case of WNV was reported in Clermont County, […]
SUMMIT COUNTY (WOIO) – Summit County Health Commissioner Gene Nixon announced that two confirmed human cases of West Nile Virus Encephalitis have recently been reported to Summit County Public Health. These are the first confirmed human cases of WNV in Summit County since 2002. Unfortunately, a 78-year old resident of New Franklin expired on September 13, […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The Health Department has confirmed another human case of the West Nile Virus. A 71-year-old Cleveland man is the latest to be sickened. A 19-year-old Cleveland-area girl was previously hospitalized in Cuyahoga County, and another Ohio teen was so bit by an infected mosquito in Putnam County. Inspectors from the Health […]