Japan's First West Nile Fever Case Confirmed
Posted on: Monday, 3 October 2005, 06:00 CDT
Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo
Tokyo, 3 October: A Japanese man in his 30s has been infected with West Nile fever, the first confirmed case of the disease in Japan, hospital sources said Monday [3 October].
It is suspected that the patient, a resident in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, was infected with the disease in the United States where he stayed from late August to early September, the sources said.
He suffered from fever when he returned to Japan and initially received treatment at a hospital in Kawasaki, according to the sources.
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases and other institutions then conducted tests on the man on the suspicion that he was infected with the disease, they said.
Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
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