"He should have gone to hospital, immediately. But he didn't he thought: If this is a common infection, I'll get over it. Then he realized it wasn't a common infection. But it still took 10 days for doctors to make a reliable diagnosis. 10 days during which the then 49-year-old fell into a coma and suffered heart failure multiple times. His lungs filled with fluid, and his brain became inflamed."
"WNV is mainly transmitted by native mosquitoes of the genus Culex. But WNV does originate from the Tropics. It was first detected in 1937 in the West Nile region of northern Uganda and named after that place where it was found. Migratory birds then brought WNV to Europe and the US, where it was first recorded in 1999. Today, it is the main cause of mosquito-borne diseases in the US."
David Hancock contracted West Nile virus from a mosquito bite at his Glendale, Arizona doorstep and developed severe illness in 2007, including coma, repeated heart failure, pulmonary fluid accumulation and brain inflammation. West Nile virus is transmitted mainly by native Culex mosquitoes that become infected when they bite infected birds and then pass the virus to other birds, horses or humans. The virus was first detected in 1937 in northern Uganda and later spread to Europe and the US via migratory birds, with first US detection in 1999. West Nile virus is now the main cause of mosquito-borne disease in the US and can be asymptomatic, yet about 1,300 Americans become seriously ill annually.
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