The Oklahoma City-County Health Department, in coordination with municipal partnerships, implements a multilevel approach to prevention, surveillance and disease abatement of Vectorborne Diseases, including West Nile Virus (WNV).
How are we doing?
There were 36 reported West Nile Virus disease cases in Oklahoma City-County during 2013- 2015 – this included 8 West Nile Virus Fever and 28 West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive. During 2013-2015, there were a total of 191 West Nile Virus disease cases reported in Oklahoma (77 WNV Fever and 114 WNV Neuroinvasive), and 5,271 in the United States (2,780 WNV Fever and 4,069 WNV Neuroinvasive). ArboNET began collecting Zika outbreak data Jan. 1, 2015 and there were zero reported locally acquired cases in Oklahoma City-County and Oklahoma.