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                              **ALERT**

West Nile disease EXPLODES -- The number of West Nile virus cases has tripled since last week and will likely top last year's record total, a U.S.health official said Thursday in the latest warning of the mosquito-borne disease.

"The numbers are starting to change very, very quickly," said Dr. Julie

Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "That is very concerning." Washington Post 8/7/03

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