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This mosquito-borne illness, often asymptomatic, is preventable by avoiding bites, as advised by health authorities. Here are the details.
The main symptoms of West Nile infection are headache, fever, muscle aches, dizziness and loss of memory.
West Nile Fever is a mosquito-borne zoonotic disease and is related to viruses that cause Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever and St Louis encephalitis.
The virus is transmitted to humans through a mosquito bite and is mostly reported in North America.
The first set of samples from a 24-year-old woman turned positive, after tests from the National Institute of Virology, Pune.
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