Lisa Welchel has confirmed via Twitter that she has a confirmed case of West Nile Virus. Her post read, “Dr. just called with blood test results… I have West Nile. Ugh. I’m fine, just tired. Takes a year to recover.” After support and well-wishes came flooding in, she further tweeted, “I’ve been very touched by […]
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Statistics released on November 7, 2012 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show a scary reality when it comes to West Nile. The annual number of mosquito-borne virus cases top out at 5,054—with related death cases at 228. And when we kissed summer goodbye for yet another year, medical researchers expected to […]
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Mike Clark, a doctor from North Texas, is now the patient since being infected with the West Nile virus. Clark now wonders if he and others infected with the neuroinvasive form of the disease could have been spared had the Dallas County health department opted for aerial spraying sooner. Clark is still in rehabilitation more […]
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An Alberta man, 66-year-old Ron Sept died on October 4 due to a mere mosquito bite. Prior to the bite, Sept had survived two heart transplants and lived another 14 years. “It’s so hard to accept that after 14 years staying alive after the heart transplants it was one little mosquito, that’s all, that brought him […]
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