Spain: 2020 West Nile Fever

[Shiloh]

Source: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/health-...ains-andalusia


Twelve cases of Nile fever confirmed in Spain's Andalusia
Reuters
Publishing date: Aug 13, 2020 • Last Updated 7 hours ago • 1 minute read


MADRID — Twelve out of 19 people suffering from meningitis in the southern Spanish province of Seville have tested positive for Nile fever, with the remaining seven samples still pending results, the regional government of Andalusia said on Thursday.

Seventeen of the 19 cases tested are hospitalized, with seven people currently in intensive care...

[Mary Wilson]

West Nile virus outbreak spread by mosquitos kills two in Andalusia

21 August 2020
15:25 CEST+02:00

Credit: Lyle Buss/CC/UF/IFAS

Two people are confirmed to have died in southern Spain in an outbreak of a West Nile virus, a meningoencephalitis spread by mosquitos.

A total of 35 people have so far been confirmed to be infected in the outbreak which has hit the areas of Coroa del Rio and La Puebla del Rio, two communities on the banks of the Guadalquiver River outside Seville.

Of these, 23 people have been hospitalised and seven are being treated in intensive care units.

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