Portage County has reported its first human case of West Nile virus for the year. The virus is transmitted to humans through bites from infected mosquitoes, not from person to person. While most ...
Illinois' first West Nile virus-related death of 2025 was confirmed in Cook County today, according to an Illinois Department of Public Health press release. "The year's first death from West Nile ...
LAKE COUNTY, Ill. -- A man in northeastern Illinois died from rabies about a month after apparently being infected by a bat he found in his room, marking the first human case of the virus in the state ...