By late summer, what started as fever and fatigue had morphed into severe migraines, dizziness and partial loss of hearing. “It was fall turning into winter and I could not drive. It was really hard for me to just walk around the house; I could not walk up and down the stairs by myself,” she said.

An adult in Lafayette is the first human death of West Nile virus in Colorado this year, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Most cases have been identified in the province of Latina, about 100 kilometres south of Rome. View on euronews

Public health officials have confirmed a Pueblo County resident was hospitalized with a confirmed case of West Nile virus. The