DAVIS COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — The Davis County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that one person has passed away from West Nile virus and two more have been hospitalized in Davis County.
“Over the past few weeks, human cases of West Nile virus have been reported throughout the state of Utah, particularly along the Wasatch front,” the department said in a press release Wednesday.
The Utah County Health Department also reported five human cases of the virus, four of which were neuroinvasive meaning the possibility of the virus leading to a severe neurological disease in a small percentage of individuals, according to experts.
Five confirmed human cases of West Nile Virus in Utah County
Health department officials say those infected will normally not develop any symptoms. “It is estimated that less than 1% of people infected with [West Nile virus] will develop the neuroinvasive form of the disease, which can result in debilitating long-term complications of death.”…