Serious Illnesses You Can Get From Mosquito Bites

West Nile Virus

The West Nile Virus is a commonly known mosquito-borne disease that affected more than 2,200 cases in the United States in 2014, which included up to one hundred deaths. Approximately eighty percent of individuals infected do not develop any symptoms. The other twenty percent report symptoms of tiredness, fever, headache, body aches, vomiting, nausea, swollen lymph glands and rashes on the trunk of the body. In rare cases (less than one percent), individuals infected with West Nile Virus will develop neurologic diseases such as meningitis or encephalitis. Of this one percent, approximately ten percent may die.

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