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New onset of Bell's palsy in a patient with West Nile Encephalitis.

Tetyana VaysmanAnna MelkonyanAntonio Liu
Published in: Clinical case reports (2020)
The case report presented a patient who was diagnosed with West Nile virus encephalitis and developed new onset of Bell's palsy within 8 days of diagnosis. Given the incidence of WNV, it would be beneficial to evaluate WNV-infected patients for peripheral neuropathy which nowadays has quite practical implication.
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