- Flavia Riccardo1,* , Antonino Bella1,* , Federica Monaco2 , Federica Ferraro3 , Daniele Petrone1 , Alberto Mateo-Urdiales1 , Xanthi D Andrianou4 , Martina Del Manso1 , Giulietta Venturi1 , Claudia Fortuna1 , Marco Di Luca1 , Francesco Severini1 , Maria Grazia Caporali1 , Daniela Morelli2 , Federica Iapaolo2 , Ilaria Pati1 , Letizia Lombardini1 , Tamas Bakonyi4 , Olivia Alexandra4 , Patrizio Pezzotti1 , Maria Gabriella Perrotta3 , Francesco Maraglino3 , Giovanni Rezza3 , Anna Teresa Palamara1 , Italian Arbovirus Surveillance network5
As in 2018, when a large West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic occurred, the 2022 vector season in Italy was marked by an early onset of WNV circulation in mosquitoes and birds. Human infections were limited until early July, when we observed a rapid increase in the number of cases. We describe the epidemiology of human infections and animal and vector surveillance for WNV and compare the more consolidated data of June and July 2022 with the same period in 2018.