Acute Flaccid Paralysis Accompanying West Nile Meningitis
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Introduction: West Nile virus is an RNA virus that was first isolated in a patient in the West Nile province of Uganda 1937 and has since than spread to the Middle East, Europe, and found its way to the United States in 1999 when the first case of West Nile Virus was reported in Queens, NY. From 1999 to 2008, there have been a total of about 29,000 cases of which about 12,000 had neuroinvasive disease.
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