West Nile Virus

 

• The West Nile Virus is a mosquito-born virus

• Caused by a mosquito bite

• The bite causes viral illnesses

• Happens most often in North America, Africa, and Europe

• The symptoms appear up to 2 to 14 days.

• There is no specific cure for this disease

• There is a vaccine for horses

• You can easily be cured

• Symptoms isn’t serious

• There isn’t any side affects because there is no vaccine for humans

• The CDC works with WNV

• People who don’t use protection is more capable of getting it

• WNV is Capable of causing West Nile fever, West Nile encephalitis and West Nile meningitis

• First isolated in a women in 1937, in Uganda

 

The CDC works with this disease. The CDC helps with public emergencies. It lets the public health departments be prepared and they help them with founds and technical assistance.

 

Case Study

Rome B. 

Rome B, a retired construction worker always goes out and enjoys the hot weather. Lived in Florida, he loved it there. He loved taking walks around the neighborhood. Rome B. is a 51 white male. He is a family man, loves all his grandkids. He was always the cool and funny grandpa and the trustworthy neighbor. Every Sunday his family comes over and they have family dinner, after they eat they take a family walk. Rome B, has diabetes, he have to check his blood pressure a lot. Lately it was getting hot so he would sleep with the window open. After a couple days he was feeling sick. He haven’t been eating, he been having these headaches and his eyes hurts when there is a lot of light. He has to check his blood pressure a lot because of his sickness. When he does use a pricker he asks one of his grandkids to throw it away.  He got really sick when he started throwing up and acted confused all the time. Rome B.  wasn’t going to go to the hospital until his daughter insisted she take him to the hospital. She was not leaving him in the house especially when he has been feeling like this for four days. He had a fever, headache, his body ached, skin rash, vomiting and eye pain. His daughter made him go to the hospital. Rome B. hates hospitals and hate being around sick people. His daughter drove him to the hospital herself and brought him to the emergency room. There is no cure for the vaccine. Rome B. was giving intravenous fluids. Not only was he diagnosed with the WNV, his diabetes is messing with him too. The doctors were trying to figure out if the intravenous fluids were the trigger for his diabetes. They don’t believe that’s the reason but at the same time you never know.  Although Rome B. was very sick and felt out of his element he and his family had hope that he would survive because WNV isn’t a deadly disease, although its possible. Since he got in the hospital his family never left his side. Three days later Rome B. died of West Nile Virus. He is one out of 150 people who actually die from WNV. It is rare to die from West Nile Virus, but it is possible. Rome family felt like there world ended as well as his. No matter how hard things got they always had Sunday dinner together and took walks afterwards. Rome B. was I typical family man that died from WNV.

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