Exclusive: Co-op City woman who contracted West Nile virus remains in hospital for weeks
Late last month, Halimah Bishop’s sister convinced her to go the hospital after noticing how weak she’d become.
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A Co-op city woman is fighting to speak and walk again after contracting West Nile virus.
Late last month, Halimah Bishop’s sister convinced her to go the hospital after noticing how weak she’d become. Her fiancé, Nicolas Guerrero, spoke exclusively with News 12 and says in the weeks since she has been in the hospital, everything has changed.
Now nearly three weeks later, she hasn’t been able to speak or sit up since. The 47-year-old’s symptoms began as a rash, then she started getting weaker.
She was diagnosed with West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne illness, more than a week after she got to the hospital.
“I just want people to know to be careful, there’s a lot of diseased insects, a lot of pollution here in New York City," said Guerrero. "I don’t know what it is, but you can just be at Orchard Beach and be bit by a West Nile mosquito”
The city says it last sprayed for mosquitos in the Pelham Bay area Aug. 6.
There are two other confirmed cases of West Nile virus in the Bronx.
