A new JAMA study wonders why many patients who develop neurologic manifestations of West Nile virus (WNV) recover fully, and some patients who present with acute flaccid paralysis sometimes develop an irreversible poliomyelitis-like syndrome.
They just haven't realized it is due to the pesiticdes they are spraying to control the virus. If they had been reading this newsletter they would have, as it was posted two years ago
JAMA July 23, 2003;290(4):511-5