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West Nile virus was of no concern to residents of North America until the summer of 1999, when it seemingly inexplicably struck in Queens, NY. The approximately 2700 cases of WNV meningoencephalitis reported through 2002 made it the largest such epidemic ever documented anywhere in the world.

West Nile Virus in the United States