CNN — Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is recovering at home after being hospitalized with West Nile virus, a spokesperson said. Fauci, a longtime public health official who became a household name as part of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, is expected to recover fully, the spokesperson said. About 1,000 …
CNN — Brittany Yeager was leading a troop of girls at Girl Scout camp in Idaho last summer when a mosquito bite upended her life. “There wasn’t the story of what happened to me.” Yeager, Brittingham and Hamrick are three of the roughly 1,000 Americans who are hospitalized each year with the most severe form of West Nile virus, in …
Russia issued a warning on Monday about the possibility of a rise in West Nile Virus infections this autumn, citing mild temperatures and heavy precipitation as favourable circumstances for mosquitos that carry the virus. West Nile virus is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the continental United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms, Severe …
