Dr. Deborah S. Asnis This is Me

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1. 1. www.timesledger.com

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   Published on: 12/13/2007   Last Visited: 12/15/2007

   Queens resident and legendary TV chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich was honored for her business development, and Dr. Deborah Asnis, of Flushing Hospital, was inducted for identifying and publicizing the city's first major outbreak of West Nile virus in 1999.
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   "Most people on this stage were just being very conscientious in their job," Asnis said. "That's all I felt I was doing."

2. 2. INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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   Published on: 11/16/2006   Last Visited: 12/25/2007

   Deborah S. Asnis, MD Infect Med 19(6):266-278, 2002. © 2002 Cliggott Publishing, Division of SCP Communications Posted 08/14/2002 Abstract and Introduction
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   Dr Asnis is clinical assistant professor in medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, and director of infectious diseases, department of internal medicine, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Flushing, NY.

3. 3. Audubon: Flying Fever

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   Published on: 5/30/2006   Last Visited: 5/30/2006

   As for why a virus kills some people but not others, Dr. Deborah Asnis, the chief of infectious diseases at Flushing Hospital Medical Center, in Queens, says there is no "magic answer" to that question, but that "it may be depressed immunity." Speaking of the West Nile virus, she says, "It affects all ages, but the ones who got seriously ill were the elderly."
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   On August 23, after tests of the blood and the spinal fluid from both patients suggested a viral infection, Dr. Asnis called Dr. Marcelle Layton, the head of the Bureau of Communicable Diseases in New York City's health department.