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Human West Nile virus case confirmed in Trumbull County  WKBN.com Source link

A western Minnesota woman is speaking out about her life-changing experience with West Nile virus amid a rise in reported cases. Clarissa Sparkl, 37, of Montevideo, experienced a case so severe that she now stays in an assisted living facility. “Once you get West Nile, there is nothing you can do about it. It takes a week to diagnose it,” …

Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak on 04 September 2025 after PCR confirmation of Ebola virus (EBOV), formely Zaïre ebolavirus, in patient’s specimens from Bulape Heath Zone, in Kasai Province. The re-emergence …

Kinshasa – Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Kasai Province where 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health workers, have been reported as of 4 September 2025. The outbreak has affected Bulape and Mweka health zones in Kasai Province where health officials have been carrying out …

A travel advisory issued over the deadly chikungunya virus has been expanded as it continues to spread around the world.  The virus, which is spread by the Aedes mosquito, can cause sudden, agonizing joint pain in the hands and feet that can be so severe it leaves sufferers unable to move normally for months. Since the beginning of 2025, more …

FARMINGTON, Utah (KUTV) — Health officials in Davis County confirmed one person died after being infected with a neuroinvasive form of West Nile Virus. The death is the first confirmed fatality connected to West Nile Virus in Utah for 2025. The Davis County Health Department said it verified three reported cases of West Nile Virus. Two of those cases were …

PROVO — Two county health departments in Utah are reporting more human cases of West Nile virus on Wednesday, including one that led to the death of a Davis County resident. The Davis County Health Department said it has seen three reported cases of West Nile virus with two of those cases being neuroinvasive West Nile virus, a more severe …

Local News A 70-year-old woman was the first in Massachusetts to test positive for West Nile virus this year, the Department of Public Health said Tuesday.  Mosquitoes can carry West Nile virus, which spreads to humans through bites from infected mosquitoes. Rick Bowmer A 70-year-old woman became the first in Massachusetts to test positive for West Nile virus this year, …

The press release did not provide more details about where in Middlesex County the woman was exposed, or when. Mosquitoes, which carry the virus and spread it to humans and animals through their bites, first started returning positive test samples in Massachusetts on June 17, The Boston Globe reported. About a month later, a goat in Lunenburg became the first …

Mosquitoes in Imperial County carry brain-inflammation virus  fox5sandiego.com Public Health IDs Mosquito Pools Positive for St. Louis Encephalitis  Calexico Chronicle Health officials find St. Louis Encephalitis mosquitoes in Brawley  Imperial Valley Press Online Source link