Location of Czech Republic and South Moravia.
Danger in the Czech Republic: Mosquitoes are infected with West Nile fever
June 19, 2018
Brno - Mosquitoes in South Moravia are infected with a Westnile fever virus, which is fatally dangerous. So far, there is no indication of the disease being transferred from a mosquito to a human being, but the risk exists according to experts.
Western migratory birds were introduced into the Czech Republic, and mosquitoes also infected them. Infected mosquitoes have been found by scientists in South Moravia. "It is not excluded that they occur elsewhere in the republic," the epidemiologist Oldřich ?ebesta of the Regional Hygienic Station in Brno told Mlada fronta Dnes. Virus isolates were specialists in Culex modestus mosquito, which occurs mainly at ponds. Mosquitoes can also adapt to urban conditions.
"We still do not know the case in the Czech Republic that West Nile Fever will be transferred from mosquito to man, but there is a risk and everybody should get a good repellent," ?ebesta said. Western moral disease in mosquitoes was detected by South Moravian epidemiologists during regular inspections. "It can not be said exactly how many of them may be, of which a few percent of the mosquitoes may be," added ?ebesta.
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