The Louisiana Department of Health confirmed Louisiana’s first human case of West Nile virus this year in an individual from Livingston Parish. The person was hospitalized due to complications from the infection. No further information about the patient will be released, according to LDH.

Louisiana has had its first confirmed human case of the West Nile Virus this year. We don’t know much about the patients, but we do know they are from Livingston Parish, and they are hospitalized tonight.

The first human case of West Nile virus this summer has been confirmed in Illinois.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a person downstate, specifically in Southern Illinois,