London’s chief nurse said symptoms of the infection included “severe headache, stiff neck, high temperature, confusion, irritability, stomach cramps, blotching rash, joint pains and sometimes people have seizures”.<\/p>\n
She added that the rash would be “quite an obvious thing”, alongside “confusion and irritability”.<\/p>\n
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