Two years starting on JULY 5, 2009 i watched my otherwise perfectly healthy 19 year daughter fight for her life at Erlanger with West Nile Fever. It took a full week to even diagnose! Flu-like is not what the symptoms look like, this fever mimics the worst meninegitis that you can imagine which means in TN, the ER docs you will see at first think and treat you for that when in fact you need anti virals not antibotics. She is fine and well now but it took weeks for her to fully recover!
Hamilton County mosquito-control funds slashed as West Nile virus enters state
Two years starting on JULY 5, 2009 i watched my otherwise perfectly healthy 19 year daughter fight for her life at Erlanger with West Nile Fever. It took a full week to even diagnose! Flu-like is not what the symptoms look like, this fever mimics the worst meninegitis that you can imagine which means in TN, the ER docs you will see at first think and treat you for that when in fact you need anti virals not antibotics. She is fine and well now but it took weeks for her to fully recover!