Chan Vincent, Minalyan Artem, Ottman Patrick, Raza Ahmad, Tewary Anubha
Internal Medicine, Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health, Abington, USA.
Cureus. 2019 Oct 4;11(10):e5838. doi: 10.7759/cureus.5838.
Poliovirus has been eradicated in the US for 40 years. Its sequelae, poliomyelitis, a syndrome characterized by fever, meningitis, and flaccid paralysis, is a rare entity. Other viruses have been implicated in poliomyelitis-like syndromes since the elimination of poliovirus. West Nile virus (WNV), since its westward migration in 1999, has recently been found to be a causative agent of fever, encephalitis, and acute flaccid paralysis. We present the case of a male who presented to the hospital for fever and experienced a subsequent fall, without any symptoms of encephalitis, diagnosed with WNV infection.
脊髓灰质炎病毒在美国已被根除40年。其后遗症脊髓灰质炎，是一种以发热、脑膜炎和弛缓性麻痹为特征的综合征，是一种罕见的病症。自脊髓灰质炎病毒被消灭以来，其他病毒也被认为与脊髓灰质炎样综合征有关。西尼罗河病毒（WNV）自1999年向西迁移以来，最近被发现是发热、脑炎和急性弛缓性麻痹的病原体。我们报告一例男性病例，该患者因发热入院，随后摔倒，无任何脑炎症状，被诊断为西尼罗河病毒感染。
