In the United States, a terrible mutant virus was recorded that affects the brain. The first cases of infection with the new virus were recorded in the states of Mississippi and Michigan. According to the Washington Post, the infection resembles the West Nile virus already known in the United States, which has been causing annual epidemics since 1999.
The new strain, like its predecessor, is spread by mosquitoes. However, it affects the brain not only of elderly people with weakened immunity due to serious illnesses.
Physician Art Lewis of Jackson, Mississippi has documented severe cases of illness in young, healthy Americans. He is convinced that if a new virus spreads, the United States will face the worst epidemic in decades. “For the first time, we have recorded x-ray signs that the virus very strongly and quickly affects the higher parts of the cerebral cortex,” says Dr. Lewis.
Such patients lost the ability to speak, rationally, and then the mutated West Nile virus caused paralysis. Similar cases of infection were recorded by the doctor Elizabeth Angus in Detroit.
I was shocked. More and more young patients with very severe brain dysfunction are being admitted. We don't know until the end how big the changes in the behavior of the virus are,”says Elizabeth Angus.
At the same time, scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in no rush to fight the infection. According to scientists, doctors have not yet recorded a sufficient number of cases of infection with the mutant virus.