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>From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html Subject: CDC -- Feds didn't request probe into bioterrorism Health agency studying West Nile virus outbreak October 11, 1999 Web posted at: 11:51 a.m. EDT (1551 GMT) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this story: CDC will not 'rule anything' out RELATED STORIES, SITES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATLANTA (CNN) -- The Central Intelligence Agency has not asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate whether bioterrorism is behind the outbreak of West Nile-like encephalitis in the New York City area, according to the CDC. MESSAGE BOARD Bugs, bugs, bugs How to protect yourself: Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi, associate professor of internal medicine at George Washington University, recommends taking these precautions against encephalitis and other insect-borne diseases: •Wear long, protective clothing •Stay inside at dusk and dawn, the times when mosquito bites are most likely •Use insect repellents containing the active ingredient DEET •Spray both skin and clothing with the repellent "Our direction does not come from the CIA to investigate a disease outbreak," CDC spokeswoman Barbara Reynolds said. The disease center was responding to an article in The New Yorker magazine that hit the newstands Monday. The article reported that the CIA was looking into claims by an Iraqi defector that Saddam Hussein was developing a strain of West Nile-like virus for use as a biological weapon. A CIA official said Monday that the agency had looked into rumors that the outbreak was the work of terrorists and concluded it wasn't. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press there's no evidence Iraq or any other foreign government was involved. Until this summer's outbreak, no illnesses attributed to the West Nile-like virus had been confirmed in the Western Hemisphere. "The CIA did contact the disease agency recently after a London newspaper published a book review six months ago. The book ... said that Saddam Hussein wanted to use the virus "in some nefarious way," Reynolds said Sunday. CDC will not 'rule anything' out Reynolds said that CDC investigators "are not going to rule anything in or anything out. But the possibility of bioterrorism is at the bottom of the list for how some outbreak may have occurred. "We're investigating a disease outbreak by invitation of a state and local health department," Reynolds said. "It appears Mother Nature is at work," she added. "Nothing indicates that this was anything other than a natural outbreak," Jerome Hauer, the director of New York City's emergency management office, said Sunday. A strain of a West Nile-like virus has claimed the lives of six people in the New York area since it was discovered in early September. The mosquito-borne virus has infected 54 people in the New York metropolitan area -- 39 in New York City, nine in Westchester County and six in Nassau. Crows that tested positive for the virus have been found in six New Jersey counties. The virus lives in crows and other birds as well as mosquitoes. "There have been no confirmed cases in New Jersey of the virus in humans," the New Jersey Department of Health spokeswoman Rita Manno said Sunday. Symptoms of the strain include fever and headache. In rare cases, the virus can cause neurological disorders and death. 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