I was traveling through East Germany some years ago and was bitten, relentlessly, by the ‘skeeters’ there. One vicious bite was on my hand and it swelled hours later. Once we reached Poland......I was sick as a dog. Swollen glands, SEVERE weakness. Couldn’t even pull myself out of bed.
FINALLY was able to get a hold of some antibiotics from a horrible state hospital with an accompanying translator.
Don’t know what in the heck the illness was.....but never experienced anything like it in my life.
I grew up having mosquito bites....and I usually ‘absorb’ them.
If antibiotics did the trick then it wasn’t West Nile. West Nile is a viral infection and antibiotics are useless against it.