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...After a week or two of relative calm, the mosquito-borne illness is back in the headlines. The virus took the life of a 73-year-old Queens man Monday who died after two days in the hospital. In Georgia, concerns are mounting over organ donations and blood bank supplies after four organ recipients were treated for symptoms of the virus. One of the recipients died from brain swelling associated with the disease. Overall, this has been a tough year as far as West Nile virus is concerned; when it first appeared during the summer of 1999, it was contained...
...Does this new information mean we're back in the figurative woods? Should we all start hoping for an early frost and an end to mosquito season? As with many news stories, things on the West Nile front aren't nearly as bad as they may seem...
...Stephen Zinner: I don't think there's any reason to panic. People should not live in fear of this virus. Just keep mosquito prevention in mind. As we've all been hearing, most healthy adults are not at great risk...
...important to remember that most people [around 80 percent] who are infected by the virus by a mosquito show no recognizable symptoms. Of the 20 percent who do have some recognizable illness, most of it is extremely mild, a "flu-like" symptom, nausea, maybe mild rash, some fatigue. These are symptoms that appear in viral infections in general...
...Zinner:Certainly a mosquito bite should not prompt a call to a physician. Most of these cases have come on fairly suddenly, with fever and nausea, usually. The only way to confirm the virus is with a blood test. If people are worried that their symptoms are West Nile-related, they can ask a doctor for a blood test. That said, there is no specific treatment; we can only treat the symptoms...