Department of Medicine

19 Coloradans hospitalized with West Nile as of Monday

Written by KDVR | August 14, 2023

“We think about 80% of people may not even know they are sick,” said Daniel Pastula, chief of neuroinfectious diseases and global neurology at UCHealth. “About 20% of the time, people may get a pretty severe, flu-like illness of high fever, rashes, joint pain, muscle pain. And then about 1% of the time, this virus may impact the nervous system.”