Italy: 2025 West Nile - 49 deaths

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An 82-year-old woman died in Fondi from West Nile virus, with six cases in the province of Latina.
West Nile virus is transmitted by mosquitoes and does not spread from person to person.
Rome,July 20 2025

An 82-year-old woman living in Nerola, Rome, died from West Nile virus at the San Giovanni di Dio Hospital in Fondi, Latina. The woman had been hospitalized on July 14 for fever and confusion. The Lazio Region announced this. There are currently six other confirmed cases of West Nile virus infection in Lazio, all in the province of Latina. Two are in critical condition due to comorbidities and are both hospitalized at the Santa Maria Goretti Hospital in Latina. The other four are improving. The Lazio Region recalls the measures implemented on July 17 to strengthen surveillance and monitoring activities for the proper management of any suspected cases...

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Source: https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/07/2...-two-in-italy/

Western Nile Virus kills two in Italy
By Molly Grace • Published: 24 Jul 2025 • 22:48

taly is on alert after health authorities confirmed two deaths and 32 cases linked to West Nile virus (WNV) so far this year. The outbreak has sparked concern in several regions, particularly in the province of Latina (Lazio), where the majority of infections have been reported.

According to the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), 21 of the confirmed cases are concentrated in Latina, with the remaining infections spread across Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, and Campania. The virus has claimed two lives, one in Latina and another in Novara (Piedmont). Both victims were elderly and reportedly had underlying health conditions that increased their vulnerability. Of the 32 confirmed infections, 23 patients developed neuroinvasive symptoms, a severe form of the disease that can affect the brain and spinal cord. Several remain hospitalised in intensive care units, particularly in Fondi (Lazio), where local health officials are continuing to monitor new cases...

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West Nile: first death in Campania and second in Lazio

There are 16 new positive cases linked to the West Nile virus in Lazio where there is also a second death, a 77-year-old man from the province of Latina, with previous diseases, who would have stayed in the last period in Baia Domizia, in the province of Caserta. This is reported by the bulletin of the Lazio Region, underlining that "with these latest investigations and the two deaths, the diagnostic confirmations of positivity of West Nile Virus infection in 2025 rise to 44, recorded in the province of Latina (41 total cases, including the patient who died last week at the hospital of Fondi) and in the province of Rome (2 cases) and 1 outside the region with probable exposure in the province of Caserta".
The provinces of Lazio affected by infections

"Of the 44 cases of confirmed positivity to the West Nile virus - adds the note - 18 patients are currently hospitalized in ordinary wards for other diseases; 3 have been discharged; 19 are being treated at home; 2 patients are hospitalized in intensive care; 2 deaths".


First death in Campania

An 80-year-old man is the first victim of West Nile in Campania. Also in this case the man, originally from Maddaloni, had serious previous pathologies and had been hospitalized since Friday at the Caserta hospital in the emergency medicine department. At the Sant'Anna and San Sebastiano hospital in Caserta, another elderly man, also from Maddaloni, is also hospitalized for the same type of infection. The mayor of the Caserta municipality, Andrea De Filippo. spoke of two "elderly, frail, both from the eastern area of Maddaloni\

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/west-nile-primo-decesso-campania-e-secondo-lazio-AHdmhHwB?refresh_ce=1

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West Nile, second victim in Campania: a 74-year-old from Pomigliano


A second victim in Campania for West Nile. A 74-year-old man died last Friday at the Hospital of the Sea in Naples but the news was only learned in the last few hours. The man, born in Pomigliano d'Arco, had been urgently transferred to the hospital on July 20 for a digestive hemorrhage. Two days later, fever and confusion appeared, a clinical picture aggravated by kidney failure. The patient died at 4.20 a.m. last Friday.

Yesterday the first victim of the West Nile virus in Campania: an 80-year-old man originally from Maddaloni, hospitalized in Caserta. Nationally, on the other hand, there are five deaths: before the two deaths in Campania, a man had died on March 30 in the province of Novara and an 82-year-old woman on July 20 at the hospital in Fondi, in the province of Latina. Finally, a case that still involves Campania: the death, yesterday, of a 77-year-old at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome. The man lived in Isola del Liri, in the province of Frosinone, but according to doctors he had become infected on vacation in Baia Domizia, in the province of Caserta.

https://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/07/29/news/west_nile_seconda_vittima_in_campania_un_74enne_di_pomigliano-424758916/?ref=RHLF-BG-P1-S1-T1-k245

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West Nile: third death in Campania. There are 23 cases in the region

A sixty-eight-year-old from Trentola Ducenta, in the province of Caserta, is the third to die from the West Nile virus in Campania, the seventh in Italy since the beginning of the year: the man, according to what has been learned, died last night at the hospital in Aversa, in the Caserta area.

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West Nile, fourth victim in Campania: 72-year-old dies from Maddaloni

Fourth victim in Campania for the West Nile virus. The Asl Caserta has just confirmed the death of a 72-year-old man from Maddaloni who has been hospitalized for a few days at the Sant"Anna and San Sebastiano hospital in Caserta.

The victim was a frail and elderly patient, with previous diseases, as in the previous three cases of death in the region linked to Nile Fever. He is the second citizen of Maddaloni, after the eighty-year-old who died in recent days and was also hospitalized in Caserta, to lose his life following the infection and complications from the virus transmitted to humans by a mosquito bite.

In all, since the beginning of the year there have been 8 victims in Italy, all in Campania and Lazio, except for a 75-year-old from the province of Novara, who died on March 30.

Meanwhile, the number of positives in Campania is increasing, in addition to the 23 counted until yesterday, of which 14 in the Caserta area. The balance is being updated, but already this morning the hospitalization of a new patient, a resident of Grazzanise, also in the province of Caserta, is confirmed.

Three fatal cases of West Nile in the Caserta area: in addition to the two from Maddaloni, yesterday the news was released of the death at the Moscati hospital in Aversa of a 68-year-old from Trentola Ducenta with serious illnesses who was serving house arrest for a cumulative sentence.

The threshold of attention of the Asl of Caserta on the area east of the province, almost on the border with Benevento and Naples, is raised. There is no cluster yet, but epidemiological investigations are underway.

The three cases of deceased people have points in common: they are in fact immunosuppressed people with a health picture already partly compromised and the 72-year-old who died today also had important previous diseases. It is precisely the already serious state of health, which forced all three to stay at home almost all the time, except when they always had to move for health reasons, suggests that the infection occurred in their homes through the bite of mosquitoes. The three deceased patients all had the same symptoms, in particular encephalitis and fever.

https://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/07/30/news/west_nile_quarta_vittima_in_campania_muore_76enne_di_maddaloni-424761449/?ref=RHLM-BG-P4-S1-T1-fdg10

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West Nile, a 54-year-old from Monselice is seriously injured

PADUA - Serious case of West Nile in Monselice. A 54-year-old from Monselice who is now hospitalized in the hospital of Schiavonia contracted the virus.

According to the information, the man was affected by the virus in its most severe form, the neuroinvasive one with meningoencephalitis.

https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/padova/west_nile_monselice_54_anni_grave-8986560.html

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Ten people have died from West Nile fever in Italy

On Saturday at the Spallanzani Institute in Rome, a 93-year-old woman died of West Nile fever, an infectious disease of tropical origin transmitted by mosquitoes through their bites. The woman was originally from Cisterna di Latina: hers is the fourth confirmed death due to West Nile in recent weeks in Lazio, and the tenth in Italy since the beginning of the year.

In Italy, West Nile was identified for the first time in 1998 and has been on the rise for some years due to the growing spread of invasive mosquitoes; it almost always causes minimal or mild symptoms but can be risky for frail people. According to the bulletin released by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) on Friday, there are 89 cases of West Nile Virus infection confirmed as of last July 30, of which 23 in Lazio. Also based on ISS data, in 2024 there were 484 cases and 36 deaths.

Due to the increase in infections, the National Blood Center (CNS), the body that deals with blood transfusions in Italy, has imposed limitations on the possibility of donating blood for those who have spent at least one night in the Italian provinces considered at risk of the greatest spread of the virus between the summer and autumn of 2025.

https://www.ilpost.it/2025/08/02/west-nile-febbre-italia-dieci-persone-morte/

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West Nile, 77-year-old man died in Latina: he is the fifth victim in Lazio

A 77-year-old man died at the Santa Maria Goretti hospital in Latina due to the West Nile virus. The patient, hospitalized in serious condition since July 17, suffered from previous chronic diseases. This is the fifth death related to the West Nile virus in the Lazio region.

Two days ago a 93-year-old lady from Cisterna di Latina lost her life. The elderly woman had been hospitalized at the San Paolo hospital in Velletri and then transferred to the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, but there was nothing for her to do.

The virus transmitted by mosquitoes has already killed an 86-year-old from Latina, a 77-year-old from Isola del Liri, known in the Frusinate area for his atelier of ceremonial clothes, and an 82-year-old from Nerola.

https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/08/04/news/west_nile_morto_uomo_77_anni_latina-424770794/

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Two more deaths from West Nile in the Caserta area, the toll in Italy rises to 13

There are three more victims from complications caused by the West Nile virus. Today, August 4, a 77-year-old man died at the Santa Maria Goretti hospital in Latina and two others, 79 and 71 years old, in the Caserta area. Lazio and Campania are therefore confirmed as the most affected territories. The death toll, since the beginning of the year, has therefore risen to 13. The alert remains high and the regions concerned have adopted all the measures provided for by the National Plan for the prevention, surveillance and response to arboviruses, starting with pest control, together with the strengthened control measures affecting blood donations and transplants. In fact, blood transfusions and transplants, albeit in rare cases, are still possible as the virus is transmitted almost exclusively through the bite of infected mosquitoes and not from person to person. Experts reiterate that there is no alarm situation and the National Institute of Health has already specified that the trend of infection and the number of cases and deaths is in line with previous years. Tomorrow, August 5, Health Minister Orazio Schillaci will report on the spread of the virus in Italy before the Senate Social Affairs Committee.

https://tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2025/08/04/west-nile-latina

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West Nile, first infection in Rome: she is a woman from the Infernetto. Today two deaths in Lazio and one in Calabria

Two new deaths of patients positive for the West Nile virus in Lazio and the first infected in Rome, a woman who tested positive for the virus, the first case recorded in the capital.

In the morning, the Region had given news of the sixth victim, an 83-year-old woman from Pontinia, who died today 7 August at the Santa Maria Goretti hospital in Latina.

"The patient - explained the Region - had arrived in the emergency room on 24 July. Hospitalized in intensive care in serious condition due to the presence of concomitant multiple pathologies, she died in the intensive care unit. This is the sixth case of death from West Nile ascertained in Lazio".

Then, in the afternoon, the second death: a 77-year-old man from Velletri died at the Isola Tiberina hospital in Rome. "The patient, with exposure to Cisterna di Latina - specified the Region - was undergoing dialysis and hospitalized since 26 July: he died in the intensive care unit".

As for the first Roman case, it is a 77-year-old woman "with a possible exposure in the Infernetto area in Rome", explains the Region. The woman, with a mild fever, is hospitalized in an ordinary ward at Spallanzani.

Lazio is the most affected region in Italy in terms of the number of deaths, which have risen to seven, together with Campania.
In Lazio 106 infections and 7 deaths

Going into detail about the positivities found, in Lazio the analyzes carried out by the Virology laboratory of the Spallanzani institute, compared to the update of last August 4, have certified 12 new cases, of which 8 with fever and 4 with neurological syndrome.

The new cases were detected mainly in the province of Latina (Aprilia, Cisterna di Latina, Latina, Norma, Pontinia, Sezze and Terracina), in addition to the positivities found in Municipality X of Rome Capital and in the province of Rome (Lanuvio, Nettuno and Velletri).

With the latest investigations, in 2025 the diagnostic confirmations of positivity of infection with the West Nile virus rise to 106. In particular: 98 cases monitored by the ASL of Latina; 5 cases monitored by the Asl Roma 6; a case monitored by the ASL of Frosinone and the ASL Roma 3; a case registered outside the region, in the province of Caserta.

Of the 106 cases of West Nile virus positivity, 20 patients are hospitalized in ordinary wards; 20 people have been discharged; 58 patients are in good condition at home; One patient is hospitalized in intensive care. And there are 7 deaths.

https://roma.corriere.it/notizie/cro...d2176xlk.shtml

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Stagione estivo-autunnale 2025

• Bollettino N. 4 del 7 agosto 2025 (pdf 1,8 Mb)

https://www.epicentro.iss.it/westnile/bollettino

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West Nile, two new cases in Northern Italy: two women hospitalized in Trento and Biella area

Two new cases of West Nile have been identified in northern Italy. They are two women: the first is a resident of Trento and at the onset of the virus had recently returned from a holiday, the second is a 72-year-old from the province of Biella with an already fragile clinical picture. Both are hospitalized but in stable condition. The number of cases recorded throughout Italy since the beginning of the year thus rises to over 170, with at least 16 victims.

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/08/09/west-nile-nuovi-casi-nord-italia-notizie/8090001/

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West Nile, eighth who died in Lazio: he is an 80 -year -old man who lived in Aprilia

An 80-year-old man, a resident of Aprilia, died this morning in the intensive care unit of the Santa Maria Goretti hospital in Latina. The patient, with concomitant pathologies, had been hospitalized for about three weeks at the Pontine hospital. This is the eighth death from the West Nile virus in Lazio. This was reported by the presidency of the Lazio Region.

https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/08/10/news/west_nile_lazio_morto_aprilia_contagi_news-424782356/?ref=RHLM-BG-P9-S1-T1-fdg3

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West Nile: the death toll in Caserta rises to 7


The death toll from West Nile in the province of Caserta rises to seven. The 83-year-old from Capua hospitalized in recent days died at the Sant'Anna and San Sebastiano hospital.

The news of the infection was given by the mayor of Capua Adolfo Villani who activated the procedures for monitoring in the area of residence of the elderly man and issued an ordinance ordering as a precautionary measure the cleaning of uncultivated land, disused swimming pools and all structures capable of developing stagnant water.

In the meantime, the 83-year-old's condition worsened to the point of causing his death. The man's funeral was celebrated on Sunday in the temple of San Roberto Bellarmino.


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