West Nile virus kills 17 in Greece

West Nile virus can cause severe neurological symptoms and can even result in death. It’s common in horses and birds are natural hosts, but don’t become infected. For horses, there is a vaccine available, but no vaccine to prevent the disease in humans exists. People can get the disease from mosquitoes that carry the disease, and while many patients might not even realize they have it, in others, it causes weakness, flu-like symptoms, nausea and in more serious cases, West Nile fever and West Nile encephalitis. Recently in Greece, there was an outbreak of West Nile.

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