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State Records First West Nile Death Of 2015

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia,
Associated Press
Published August 20, 2015 at 6:11 AM EDT

The Ohio Department of Health says a 91-year-old Williams County man is the season's first fatality from West Nile virus. There have been eight reported human cases of the mosquito-borne disease in Ohio this year. Ohio had 11 West Nile virus cases in 2014.
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