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Las Vegas Area Sees 1st Human West Nile Case This Year

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas area has now seen its first human case of the West Nile virus this year.

The Southern Nevada Health District on Tuesday announced that a woman over the age of 50 has been infected by a more serious, neuroinvasive form of West Nile.

The woman who isn't being identified was been treated and released from the hospital.

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County health officials had found mosquitoes with West Nile last month and this marks the first human case in 2016.

There was one person reported infected last year.