West Nile Virus Symptoms

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According to leading medical experts at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) West Nile virus (WNV) infection can show in the infected person no symptoms at all. Conversely, the virus can lead to West Nile Fever or worse, severe West Nile Disease.

Of the people who get infected, and start to show West Nile virus symptoms, 20% get/develop West Nile Fever. (cdc.gov)

West Nile Fever shows as such West Nile virus symptoms as fever, headache, tired feelings, and aches. Sometimes, as well, a skin rash (typically on the body torso area) and swollen glands will accompany the above.

West Nile virus symptoms in West Nile Fever last a short few days or several weeks.

West Nile Disease will last, usually, anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks. Now the West Nile virus symptoms are accelerated and graduated to severe extremes, and will include "headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, and paralysis." (cdc.org)

Again, four out of five people will not display any West Nile virus symptoms when infected, and according to CDC, 1 in 150 people infected will develop West Nile virus symptoms in the severest form-West Nile Disease. But these illnesses cannot be anticipated ahead of time, regardless of age-though older people over 50 and those immunocompromised are at the greater risk for the most severe form of the West Nile virus.

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