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Sunday's Child - Nikolas
North Texas Death Is 36th Texas West Nile Death 8/31/12
Associated Press
August 31, 2012
Fort Worth, Tx. - North Texas officials report a suburban Fort Worth resident has become the 36th Texan to die of West Nile virus this year.
A Tarrant County Public Health statement Thursday says a Hurst resident in his 80s with underlying health conditions had died of the mosquito-borne virus.
That brings the death toll in the Dallas-Fort Worth area this year to at least 22. Texas is the nation's West Nile hotbed, with the Dallas-Fort Worth area as the state's West Nile hotbed.
Mosquitoes spread the virus from birds to people. Symptoms include moderate to high fever and severe pain in the head, muscles, joints and eyes. Other symptoms can be mental changes, fatigue, nausea and respiratory trouble. Severe symptoms include neck stiffness, disorientation, coma and paralysis.