West Nile Virus Myelitis

Study design: A case report. Setting: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. Reuth Medical Center, Tel A viv, Israel. Method: Summary of the clinical course during in-patient and out-patient tr eatment of a patient with West Nile Virus Myelitis. Results and conclusion: A healthy young woman, whose medical history reveal ed only a benign Duane syndrome and a few months' duration of bipolar disor der, contracted encephalo-myelitis due to a West Nile Virus infection. Alth ough she recovered remarkably after long-term rehabilitation treatments, so me weakness and pain remained.