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Article: Chance of ill health from West Nile low; D.C. victim has weak immune system.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 9, 2002
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Byline: Guy Taylor, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Doctors say that people in good health face a very low risk of getting the West Nile virus and that even if they are infected, few will realize they have it.
"The vast majority of the people that would get infected with it don't even know they have it because they have absolutely no symptoms or very mild symptoms," says Dr. Shmuel Shoham, who specializes in infectious diseases at Washington Hospital Center.
"Statistically, for every one person with mild symptoms five others have no symptoms," he said. "For every one person with severe symptoms, 250 people would either have mild or no symptoms at all."
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