First West Nile virus case confirmed

State health officials have confirmed the year’s first case of human illness due to West Nile virus. The case involved an unidentified Addison County resident who was diagnosed earlier this month with neuroinvasive disease, a serious form of the illness that affects the nervous system.
Since 2003, there have been 12 confirmed cases of West Nile virus in Vermont. The most recent were in 2016 when two Windsor County residents were diagnosed with the neuroinvasive type of West Nile virus.
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