West Nile Virus – back

Diana Miron

Written by Diana Miron on July 22nd 2010
Posted in: Health
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This specific virus dates way back over 1000 years ago, and it was then developing in two different lineage, the 1st and the 2nd. Anyhow, the first person ever to be considered to have diet as a result of catching this virus is Alexander the Great. If at first this disease was seen mainly in horses in sub – Saharan Africa and Madagascar, it then developed as well in countries around Europe, the first one to be affected being Hungary in 2008.

Encephalitis is the disease that this virus leads to. In the United States this virus broke through at the early times of 1999 – all over America, in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America.

Symptoms that are an indication that you may have caught this disease are an asymptomatic infection, a mild febrile syndrome, and the latest the meningitis or encephalitis. While the first two may not be so harmful, the latest can even come close to coma stage. It is a most common disease in the United States as in 2009, they registered a number of 663 cases with the virus infection, out of which they ended with thirty deaths.

The United States of America has not yet got rid of the West Nile Virus, as it is very hard to get rid of, they have even made an official website that deals with getting people informed on the latest news about this virus, such as the basics about this disease, the efforts to maintain it under surveillance made from Washington DC, a deeper look at health issues directly related to this mosquito carried disease

and as well any other information that can come a as help to all of those that are in need.

The best way to get rid of this possible bite is to prevent it from happening. Therefore, as the summer time has already come, one must keep away these mosquitoes by getting rid of extra water from your yard, keep fresh water at all costs in all the houses recipients; while out of the house and going through the infected areas one should wear long sleeve shirts, pants and hats and as well use some mosquito repellent on skin; stay indoors while mosquitoes are most active, during the dusk to dawn; cover your body with light colored clothing.

According to the report that the health institute has made, this infection can be rather fatal for the vast majority of the people aged over 50, as they have a weaker immune system. At this moment in time this virus has already made its appearance in various counties in the United States, such as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and a swell in the County of Benton. While there is no actual thing that one can do to fight these disease one should just take preventive measures and how that one will not be one of the bitten people.

People all over the United States have started to get used to this possibility as they have been living this nightmare for years, and none found any cure to get rid of these mosquitoes until now and to make them disappear for good.11


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