Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, spent time in the hospital after being infected with West Nile virus and is now recovering at home, a spokesperson confirmed Saturday.
Fauci is expected to make a full recovery, the spokesperson said on condition of anonymity due to security concerns.
West Nile virus is commonly spread through the bite of an infected mosquito. While most people don’t experience symptoms, about 1 in 5 can develop a fever, headache, body aches, vomiting, diarrhea, or rash, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 1 out of 150 infected people develop a serious, sometimes fatal, illness.
CBS News’ chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jonathan LaPook, wrote in a social media post that he spoke Saturday with Fauci, who said he was likely infected from a mosquito bite that he got in his backyard.
“Dr. Fauci was hospitalized about ten days ago after developing fever, chills, and severe fatigue,” the post on X said. It said Fauci spent a week in the hospital.
As chief White House medical adviser, Fauci was the public face of the U.S. government during the COVID-19 pandemic, a role that made him both a trusted voice to millions and also the target of partisan anger. He left the government in 2022 but was back before Congress in June to testify as part of Republicans’ yearslong investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and the U.S. response to the disease.
Fauci last summer joined the faculty at Georgetown University as a distinguished university professor.
There are no vaccines to prevent West Nile, or medicines to treat it. As of Aug. 20, the CDC had recorded 216 cases in 33 states this year. It’s best prevented by avoiding mosquito bites.
(AP)
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Mengele Fauci, is a murderous filthy pig who is directly responsible for the death of miilions.
He needs to be hanging from the gallows for crimes against humanity,
I concur with @chugibugi
From his tenure on AIDS+AZT to recently COVID+Remdesevir, no physician was ever more responsible for so much death and misery on a wide global scale than Fauci since Dr. Mengele, both Yzm”Sh.
The major difference between the two sadistic psychopaths, is one specically targeted Jews versus the other made no distinction for drug profiteering.
Actually, according to WaPo, the good doctor is recovering well and will be teaching his first graduate seminar at GW when classes begin later this week. He is a lot more resilient than the stupid little Bugi that bit him and sadly was niftar in the process.
“יתוש קדמך” a mosquito is wiser than a human!
The mighty can fall from the attack of a tiny mosquito. Just ask Titus. His warning went in one ear… and did not go out the other.
@Gadolhadorah.
You have the morals and brains of a rabies infected sewer rat, that does nothing all day but lick the boots of the treasonous Communist America hating DemonRats
Fauci y”s, and all who were involved in the funding, creating, and spreading of covid-19 will one day stand before God and God will punish them with the retribution they truly deserve. They have not only killed millions, but since being infected with covid-19, many have developed lifelong diseases that they now have to struggle with and are in pain every single day. That is besides those who were forced to take the covid poison shots and were also harmed for life because of it.
Fauci is the face of evil.
And kol hakovod to Trump, whose singular accomplishment as President was his Operation Warp Speed which funded and facilitated the development of the Covid 19 Vaccines which saved millions of lives. That alone should gain him a chelek of olam habah, notwithstanding all his other meshugaas.
The Trump Vaccine will be remembered as one of the great achievements in the public health sector in decades.