A woman from El Prat had to be admitted to the ICU due to this illness
Nile fever- the disease suffered by a woman from El Prat de Llobregat who had to be admitted to the ICU - is an infection caused by the West Nile virus, a virus in the family of dengue and yellow fever , among d others It is a virus of the Flaviviriade family that is transmitted from animals to humans. Specifically, it is transmitted by the bite of the Culex mosquito and was first diagnosed in humans in 1937 in Uganda. Later it was detected in mosquitoes, birds and mammals.
In 1999, Nile fever first left the African continent and was detected in New York, from where it spread to the United States, Canada, Central America and some Caribbean islands. In the following ten years it was also detected in France, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Italy and Austria. It has become a public health problem in these countries, as severe cases have occurred there. For example, in Andalusia and Extremadura in 2020 there was an outbreak with 80 people affected and 8 deaths .
Most people pass this virus asymptomatically, but in severe cases patients can develop encephalitis or severe meningitis that often ends up causing death. Usually these patients are elderly people with other diseases or young children and the mortality is up to 10%.
Symptoms of Nile fever
The incubation period for Nile fever is between two and fourteen days. Some of the symptoms of this disease are high fever of more than 38.5 °C, myalgia (muscle pain), arthralgia (joint pain), headache (headache), fatigue , and photophobia (abnormal intolerance to light). Lymphadenopathy (enlarged lymph nodes) and maculopapular rash (skin rash) may also develop .
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