Who is at risk for SLE?
All residents of areas where active cases have been identified are at risk of getting St. Louis encephalitis. Case-fatality rates range from 3% to 30% (especially in the aged). How do people get SLE? People become infected with SLE from the bite of a mosquito that is infected with the virus. Mosquitoes become infected by feeding on birds infected SLE. The virus grows both in the infected mosquito and the infected bird, but does not make either one sick. You can not get the virus from other people, birds or insects other than mosquitoes. What are the symptoms of SLE? Mild infections occur without apparent symptoms other than fever with headache. More severe infection is marked by headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, occasional convulsions (especially in infants) and mild paralysis. How many cases of SLE have been reported in Virginia? SLE was first reported in humans in Virginia in 1975 and a total of 13 cases have been reported in Virginia to dat
