DeKalb County man hospitalized for over a week with West Nile virus

A mosquito bite is something most people try to ignore, but for one DeKalb County man, one bite turned into a life-threatening battle.

William Cross says he never imagined he would end up hospitalized after being infected with the West Nile virus.

“I remember waking up one morning and there were 20 doctors in the room, and they said I had the West Nile virus,” Cross told Channel 2’s Brittany Kleinpeter

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