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DENVER—Colorado health officials have reported the first two human cases of West Nile virus in the state this summer, in Boulder and Logan counties.
The state health department said Friday both patients are recovering. Their names haven’t been released.
Health officials say numbers of Culex mosquitoes, which carry the virus, are still low but are increasing. They say they should know within the next two weeks how severe the season will be.
Colorado had 576 cases of West Nile last year, including seven deaths.
The state’s worst year was 2003, when 63 people died of West Nile and nearly 3,000 became ill.
