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Boston Man Diagnosed With West Nile Virus

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Sep 4, 2007 2:49 pm US/Eastern

Boston Man Diagnosed With West Nile Virus

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Officials with the Department of Public Health announced a Boston man has been diagnosed with the West Nile virus.

The 54-year-old man did spend several weeks in Montana, officials say, before coming back to Massachusetts and becoming sick on August 27.

The DPH said the infected individual was probably exposed to the West Nile virus while in Montana, which has had 37 human cases of the virus this year.

Symptoms of the insect-borne virus range from mild flu-like illness to inflammation of the brain, coma and even death.

Officials advise people to avoid outdoor activities during peak mosquito times, which are dusk and dawn.

Dr. Alfred DeMaria of the Department of Public Health said people can reduce their risk of getting infected by getting rid of standing water around their homes because people are most likely to get bit by a mosquito in their own neighborhoods.