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GREAT FALLS - A Cascade County woman was recently diagnosed with a mild case of West Nile virus.

Allene Mares, executive director of the Cascade City-County Health Department, is urging county residents to take precautions to avoid mosquito bites.

Most people who become infected with the mosquito-borne disease have no symptoms, while some develop West Nile fever, which may last for three to six days.

Fewer than one out of 150 may develop West Nile encephalitis or West Nile meningitis, which causes headache, rash, high fever, mental confusion, muscle weakness, tremors, convulsions, coma and paralysis.

There has been one other human West Nile case reported in the state this year, a Richland County woman who also had a mild case.

In 2007, there were 202 cases of West Nile virus and five deaths reported in Montana.

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