This year California, Kansas and Colorado have each reported one death. Also on Friday, California officials reported the second case this spring in Yolo County in the north. The victim is recovering. Dr. Harvey Artsob of the Canadian Science Center for Human and Animal Health in Winnipeg, Manitoba, said all confirmed cases of the virus in Canada have been in the western provinces. Young, Artsob and Colorado state epidemiologist John Pape say there is no doubt many cases go undetected because doctors are not familiar with the disease.
Physicians here think about it because they have cases nearly every year.
Doctors back East usually wouldn't think of it,'' said Pape. All rights reserved.