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Experts say severe West Nile can cause long-term harm damage.
2004 JUN 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ernest Picott doesn't remember the mosquito bite that infected him with West Nile virus two summers ago, but its aftereffects are constant reminders.
Picott, then healthy enough to do heavy gardening and repair cars, suffered a life-threatening brain infection called West Nile encephalitis that June. He was in a coma for more than a week. Now unable to walk, Picott, 79, uses a wheelchair. He needs help cutting his food and has trouble speaking, thinking and remembering things.
Those complications are relatively common in the 1% of West Nile virus infections that invade the brain and nervous system. Small studies show they clear up within a year in many patients.
But Picott's family blames other new, lingering health problems on West Nile: kidney damage…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Experts say severe West Nile can cause long-term harm damage.
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