- 2 clinical cases
- 5 asymptomatic cases through blood screening
01/10/2015
Seven West Nile virus infections in 2015 in Austria
Seven cases of West Nile Virus infections have been registered so far this year in Austria. The now wrote the expert Stephan Aberle and Franz X. Heinz in the "Virus Epidemiological Information". The probable site of infection was in all these cases in Northeast Austria, where the virus has been detected in mosquitoes and birds.
Clinical cases in 2009, one in 2010 and two proven this year. Moreover, the virus within the blood donor screening could be detected in asymptomatic individuals, namely in 2014 once; "In Austria have been two autochthonous (NB not imported.). and this year already five times ", the experts established by the Department of Virology at the Medical University of Vienna.
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- 5 asymptomatic cases through blood screening
01/10/2015
Seven West Nile virus infections in 2015 in Austria
Seven cases of West Nile Virus infections have been registered so far this year in Austria. The now wrote the expert Stephan Aberle and Franz X. Heinz in the "Virus Epidemiological Information". The probable site of infection was in all these cases in Northeast Austria, where the virus has been detected in mosquitoes and birds.
Clinical cases in 2009, one in 2010 and two proven this year. Moreover, the virus within the blood donor screening could be detected in asymptomatic individuals, namely in 2014 once; "In Austria have been two autochthonous (NB not imported.). and this year already five times ", the experts established by the Department of Virology at the Medical University of Vienna.
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