How to Know What the Symptoms of West Nile Virus

The West Nile Virus is an illness contracted mostly from Mosquitoes. There are some steps you can do to prevent the contraction of the virus. Below are some symptoms that are prevalent in people who are affected by the virus. Most symptoms’ don’t appear until after 3-14 after they are bite by an infected mosquito.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Doctor

1. Someone with serious symptoms have high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, and numbness and paralysis. Many of the symptoms last for several weeks and some of affects may be permanent.
2. Milder symptoms are the same as above, fever, headache, and body aches, nausea, vomiting, swollen lymph nodes, skin rash on the chest, back, and stomach. Symptoms can last from a few days to several weeks.
3. Most of us who are infected will not even show any symptoms and will never know that we have contracted the illness.

Tips & Warnings

• If you think that you may have contracted the West Nile Virus, contact your Doctor immediately it is better to be looked at by a physician before trying to diagnose yourself.