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Fauci recovering at home after being hospitalized with West Nile virus, spokesperson says

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, spent time in the hospital after being infected with West Nile virus and is now recovering at home, a spokesperson confirmed Saturday.

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Former Chief Medical Advisor to the President of United States, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a physician-scientist and an immunologist but he gets sick?

There’s something fishy here.

People get sick, yes.

Something tells me SatinsMaggotyCumFart may be a troll

Maybe a mosquito

Yeah I'm seeing a lot of trolls from the world instance. Kind of annoying really.

They aren’t a troll as much as they are an asshole.

Two things can be true.

CBS News’ chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jonathan LaPook, wrote in a social media post that he spoke Saturday with Fauci, who said he was likely infected from a mosquito bite that he got in his backyard.

There are no vaccines to prevent West Nile, or medicines to treat it. As of Aug. 20, the CDC had recorded 216 cases in 33 states this year. It’s best prevented by avoiding mosquito bites.

would be challenging to avoid all mosquito bites

https://www.epa.gov/insect-repellents/tips-prevent-mosquito-bites

Gonna be more challenging as populated areas become favorable mosquito breeding ground because someone woke up ~~the global warming~~ Climazilla.

It's transmitted by mosquitoes so good luck dodging that. Most infections are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms so if anything, he got diagnosed simply by being who he is and having a social circle which is mostly medical professionals. Probably got a headache and decided to scratch an intellectual itch by getting tested, not much to it

I honestly can't tell if you're being serious

This here is good old elemental irony, not that weird Morissette isotope so popular back in the Aughties. Cook some bacon on this irony, because it's heirloom.

edit: AND DON'T USE SOAP ON IT!

I'm wondering if this is sarcasm

I assumed it was sarcasm

Well, bleach kills mosquitoes. And their larvae. So maybe trump was on to something. /s