Human Tests Positive For West Nile In Drew County
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The Arkansas Health Department reports today
that a human tested positive for West Nile virus in Drew County.
There have been 25 cases of humans infected by the
mosquito-borne West Nile virus reported in Arkansas this year. They
were in these 18 counties: Ashley, Chicot, Craighead, Desha, Drew,
Izard, Greene, Jefferson, Lonoke, Mississippi, Nevada, Ouachita,
Phillips, Pope, Pulaski, Scott, Sebastian and Union.
A-D-H reminds residents that West Nile is not usually deadly,
except for the elderly and infirm. Nobody has died from the virus
this year. But it can cause fever, muscle and joint aches,
listlessness and, in the most severe cases, headaches that can lead
to inflamation of the brain.
The department asks everyone to protect themselves from the
mosquito bites that can spread the virus.
