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Salt Lake County reports Utah's first 2025 West Nile virus human case.

The patient, infected in July, is recovering at home after hospitalization.

Mosquito abatement districts in Magna Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake Valley tested positive.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake County Health Department on Thursday announced Utah's first human case of West Nile virus for 2025. The individual was hospitalized with the severe, neuroinvasive form of the mosquito-borne illness but is now out of the hospital and recovering at home.

According to public health officials, the peron was likely infected in late July near the Jordan River in the southern part of Salt Lake County. No additional details about the person are available due to health privacy laws.

The department said in a n

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