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; Miriam Weinberger

doi:10.3201/eid0704.017414

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
, Miriam Weinberger

^*Corresponding author for this work

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West Nile (WN) virus is endemic in Israel. The last reported outbreak had occurred in 1981. From August to October 2000, a large-scale epidemic of WN fever occurred in Israel; 417 cases were confirmed, with 326 hospitalizations. The main clinical presentations were encephalitis (57.9%), febrile disease (24,4%), and meningitis (15.9%). Within the study group, 33 (14.1%) hospitalized patients died. Mortality was higher among patients ≥70 years (29.3%). On multivariate regressional analysis, independent predictors of death were age ≥70 years (odds ratio [OR] 7.7), change in level of consciousness (OR 9.0), and anemia (OR 2.7). In contrast to prior reports, WN fever appears to be a severe illness with high rate of central nervous system involvement and a particularly grim outcome in the elderly.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	675-678
Number of pages	4
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0704.017414
State	Published - 2001
Externally published	Yes

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Chowers, M. Y., Lang, R., Nassar, F., Ben-David, D., Giladi, M., Rubinshtein, E., Itzhaki, A., Mishal, J., Siegman-Igra, Y., Kitzes, R., Pick, N., Landau, Z., Wolf, D., Bin, H., Mendelson, E., Pitlik, S. D., & Weinberger, M. (2001). Clinical characteristics of the West Nile fever outbreak, Israel, 2000. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 7(4), 675-678. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0704.017414

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