A Larimer County resident has died of West Nile virus, but county officials have not released any further details about the victim or the area of the county in which the disease might have been contracted.
An announcement released Tuesday indicated that a Fort Collins resident died as a result of the neuroinvasive form of West Nile virus, in which the body’s nervous system is attacked.
Because of privacy concerns, no other details — including the date of death — were released by officials from the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment. The death is the first in Colorado attributed to the disease this year.
So far, four people in Larimer County have contracted West Nile virus, and two of those cases have been the most-serious, neuroinvasive type. County health officials said that three-fourths of those who become infected with West Nile virus will not show symptoms; about one-fourth will develop a fever; and less than 1 percent of those infected will come down with the neuroinvasive type of the disease.
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