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A New Study Finds that Most Victims of 'West Nile Virus' Return to Normal Health, Within a Year
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(OPEN):
TRANSMITTED BY MOSQUITOES, "WEST NILE VIRUS" IS A POTENTIALLY SERIOUS
INFECTION--WITH SYMPTOMS SUCH AS FATIGUE, COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION, AND
MOTOR ABNORMALITIES THAT CAN PERSIST FOR MONTHS. UNTIL NOW, LITTLE
WAS KNOWN ABOUT LONG-TERM RECOVERY. BUT, THERE ARE ENCOURAGING
FINDINGS IN A NEW STUDY PUBLISHED IN "ANNALS OF INTERNAL
MEDICINE". STUDY AUTHOR, DOCTOR MARK LOEB, EXPLAINS
THAT MOST VICTIMS OF "WEST NILE VIRUS" RETURN TO NORMAL HEALTH, WITHIN A
YEAR...
(LOEB):
"WHAT WE FOUND WAS THAT, FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON WHO WAS INFECTED,
OVER TIME--WHETHER IT WAS PHYSICAL FUNCTION, MENTAL FUNCTION,
DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, ALL OF THOSE MEASURES--THEY NORMALIZED OVER
TIME--OVER ABOUT A YEAR."
(CLOSE):
THE STUDY LOOKED AT MORE THAN 150 PEOPLE--MAKING THIS THE MOST-RIGOROUS
STUDY EVER DONE ON THE LONG-TERM PROGNOSIS OF "WEST NILE VIRUS"
PATIENTS.
