Abstract
Fatal Human Case of West Nile Disease, Mexico, 2009
Highlights
7 human cases of West Nile virus (WNV) infection have occurred in Mexico, 3 of which were severe
We describe a fatal case of WNV infection in a human in Central America
Personnel in the Laboratory of Molecular Infectology at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León (UANL) were informed of the patient and were provided with the remainder of the second cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimen several days before his death
Summary
1. Nichol ST, Spiropoulou CF, Morzunov S, Rollin PE, Ksiazek TG, Feldmann H, et al Genetic identification of a hantavirus associated with an outbreak of acute respiratory illness. To the Editor: West Nile virus (WNV; family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus) was first recognized in the Western Hemisphere in 1999 during an outbreak of human, equine, and avian encephalitis in New York (1). The virus has since spread across the United States and Canada, where it has caused ≈30,000 human infections and ≈1,000 deaths.
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