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West Nile fever
March 17 , 2019
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- A seven-year-old boy from Malappuram district, Kerala has been diagnosed with West Nile fever, a relatively unknown viral infection in the Malabar region in recent times.
- West Nile fever is spread by Culex mosquitoes.
- Its symptoms include fever, headache, tiredness, and body aches, nausea, vomiting, occasionally with a skin rash on the trunk of the body, and swollen lymph glands.
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) says West Nile virus transmits to humans through bites from infected mosquitoes.
- Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on infected birds.
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