West Nile Virus: Deadly Foreign Disease

Some mosquitoes may carry the West Nile virus, but it does not mean that all of them do. I am an expert becuase last week I got more than 15 mosquitoe bites, but I am still alive. The West Nile Virus was found throughout the Eastern United States in 2001, but nobody knows how the virus spread to the U.S.A. Some infected people will develop a mild illness with fever, headache, bodyaches, and sometimes skin rash and swollen glands. You can protect yourself from mosquitoe bites by applying insect repellent, that contains DEET, to your skin when you go outside. Although West Nile Virus origina…