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Volume 7, Number 4—August 2001
THEME ISSUE
West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus

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

Michal Y. Chowers*Comments to Author , 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##
Author affiliations: *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; ##Rabin Medical Center, Belinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel

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Table 1

Signs and symptoms of 233 hospitalized patients with West Nile fever

Symptoms and signs No. (%)
Fever >38°C 229 (98.3)
Headache 135 (57.9)
Change in level of consciousness 109 (46.8)
Confused state 92 (39.5)
Vomiting 73 (31.3)
Nuchal rigidity 67 (28.7)
Rash 51 (21.8)
GI symptomsa 43 (18.5)
Coma 39 (16.7)
Myalgia 36 (15.4)
Focal neurologic signs 22 (9.4)
Lymphadenopathy 10 (4.3)

aAbdominal pain, diarrhea; GI = gastrointestinal.

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