By late summer, what started as fever and fatigue had morphed into severe migraines, dizziness and partial loss of hearing. “It was fall turning into winter and I could not drive. It was really hard for me to just walk around the house; I could not walk up and down the stairs by myself,” she said.

A Fort Collins resident is confirmed to be Larimer County’s first case of West Nile virus this year and the third human case reported in Colorado.