NEW YORK.- The New York City Department of Health works to protect and promote the health of New Yorkers of all backgrounds, and is warning of the presence of “West Nile Virus” that has already caused confirmed infections in Queens and Brooklyn.
Hundreds of thousands of Dominicans residing in the different counties must take the necessary measures in response to the warning, since a record number of mosquitoes has also been detected.
Without having come out of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused 41,414 deaths and 2,734,289 infections in the city; in the midst of a crisis due to the local outbreak of “Monkey Pox”; and the reappearance of “Polio” in sewage, the Big Apple Health department is sounding the alarm about the advance of this known enemy.
The disease is spread by insect bites and not by person-to-person contact. “There is no treatment, there is support and if they have to be hospitalized, it is done, but the important thing is to prevent,” add the health authorities.
Symptoms are fever, headache, body aches, skin rash, or swollen lymph nodes. If the virus enters the brain it can cause encephalitis, meningitis and even death.
In 1999, the virus was imported into New York and caused a large and spectacular epidemic outbreak that spread throughout the United States. The epidemic in this country (1999-2010) showed that the importation and establishment of pathogenic microbes transmitted by vectors in habitats other than their own represent a serious danger to the world.
