Europe - West Nile Fever cases reported - 2018

[Gert van der Hoek]

27.06.2018

Two West Nile virus cases confirmed in Greece

Two people in Greece have contracted the West Nile virus, which is carried by infected mosquitoes, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) said on Wednesday in its weekly epidemiological data posted on its website.

The two patients who were diagnosed with the virus are the first cases recorded in 2018 and are in stable condition, the disease control agency said.

KEELPNO said the patients are from western Attica, but noted that the virus' circulation areas in the current season cannot be safely predicted, as WNV's epidemiology is determined by many factors.

Outbreaks of the virus in humans and animals were recorded every year between 2010 and 2014 and in 2017 during the summer months in various regions of the country.

The agency said it expects more cases during the year.

Attica region

 

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28 June 2018


Veneto, a case of West Nile virus in Rovigo: a 59-year-old man in the hospital

The laboratory of microbiology of Padua has communicated the positivity for the West Nile virus in a 59-year-old patient admitted to the infectious diseases department of the Rovigo hospital. This is the first case of the year: the patient is in fair condition and reacts positively to the care provided.

The Department of Prevention of the Company ulss 5 has informed the municipality of Polesella to intensify the larvo interventions .

Veneto - wikipedia

 

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28.06.2018

West Nile virus has infected 4 people in Greece


The number of people in Greece that have contracted the West Nile virus has risen to four, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) said on Thursday.

According to reports, the youngest patient is 23 years of age while the eldest is 66.

KEELPNO said the patients most likely contracted the virus, which is carried by infected mosquitoes, in the region of Megara, western Attica.

All four patients showed symptoms of problems with the central nervous system – mainly manifestations of encephalitis, aseptic meningitis or meningoencephalitis.

One of the patients has already been discharged.

 

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Italy - Human Case of West Nile Virus reported in Fermo Province

july 2, 2018

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MONTE URANO - It is stung by an insect and after a few days it accuses a strong sense of exhaustion as well as a visible reddening of the skin around the toe area. He goes to the emergency room where they diagnose him who has contracted the West Nile virus (West Nile virus) and will have to recover from anemia and renal failure. The following day, the allergy department confirms the diagnosis.

Now the 40-year-old Monturan will have to undergo close medical treatment but he was lucky because a pinch near the vital organs or near an artery, for example, could have far more serious consequences. According to the first reconstructions, at the beginning of the week the man residing in the footwear center noticed that he had been stung in the chest by an insect. Difficult to say, however, where it was: however, in the Fermano. Most likely between Monte Urano and Fermo.

Fermo Province - Wikipedia

 

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Serbia reports 4 patients infected with West Nile Virus



Four patients are in the General Hospital Pancevo due to health complications caused by the fever of the Western Nile, according to portal 013info. The presence of mosquitoes carrying the virus of the Western Nile has been confirmed at six locations in Belgrade and the same in Pančevo.

According to the data of the Public Health Institute "Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut", Vojlovica, Jabuka, Starcevo, Omoljica, Ivanovo and Glogonj are locations in Pancevo where mosquitoes were collected and where the presence of West Nile fever virus has been demonstrated.

Cases reported from the South Banat District (Pančevo municipality) and the territory of the City of Belgrade (Municipality of Palilula) are male and female, aged 66 and 69, with associated chronic diseases - according to weekly Batuta reports on the current epidemiological situation of fever of the Western Nile, on the territory of the Republic of Serbia.


location of Serbia - wikipedia ------------------- South Banat District

 

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Italy - Man in serious condition in the hospital in Lodi, West Nile fever suspected

The man, 60, has presented himself in a state of confusion

Lodi, 6 July 2018 - At the hospital in Lodi, he was in a state of confusion and with a very high fever. His condition immediately appeared serious, so much so that the man, a sixty-year-old family doctor, living in Lodi, was immediately hospitalized in intensive care at the Maggiore hospital. The doctors assure that it is a case of encephalitis. The patient is intubated, in serious but stable conditions. Now, at the Lodi hospital they are waiting for the results of the exams, but they can not exclude that it is "Nile fever", or "West Nile virus", an infectious disease that is transmitted to humans through the bite of mosquitoes present. also in the Po Valley. Usually the puncture is not dangerous but, in some cases, especially in elderly people, it can cause serious infections such as encephalitis. The patient would not have stayed abroad.


Location of Lodi Province with capital of the same name.

 

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West Nile Virus: Two new infectious cases in Greece


12 07 2018

Two new infectious outbreaks and one more "affected" area were added this week on the Western Nile virus map .

The virus transmitted by stinging the infected mosquito has so far occurred in three regions of the country: Megara, Attica, Tanagra, Viotia and Chalkidona, Thessaloniki .

"The West Nile virus has returned to Thessaloniki Of the nine patients with West Nile virus infection declared to the Center for Disease Infections and Disease Prevention (HCDCP), one is still hospitalized - except for an Intensive Care Unit.

The overwhelming majority experienced symptoms from the central nervous system, such as encephalitis, meningitis and acute relaxed paralysis, and one had symptoms of feverish disease.

The six cases were recorded in Megara Attica, the two in Tanagra Viotia and one in Chalkidona, Thessaloniki . The youngest age patient is 13 years old and the older is 66 years old.

 

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In Serbia, 11 people have been affected by West Nile Fever

On the territory of Serbia, 11 people were suffering from Western Fever. Infected mosquitoes that transmit this virus have been found in 29 locations, according to the Institute of Public Health in Serbia.

Eighty-three men and three women aged 43 to 83 years had contracted from the West Fever cough. Most patients also have accompanying chronic illnesses.

Mosquitoes infected with this virus have been found in Belgrade, Pancevo, Zrenjanin and Novi Sad.

 

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Greece: number of people infected with West Nile virus rises to 12

19 07 2018

The number of people in Greece believed to have contracted West Nile virus, which is carried by infected mosquitoes, has risen to 12, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) said on Wednesday in its weekly epidemiological data posted on its website.

The cases have been reported in the Attica municipalities of Ilioupoli, Megara and Tanagra, and in Halkidona, Thessaloniki, KEELPNO said.

Two of the 12 are in intensive care while the rest were discharged.

 

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Monday 23rd July 2018​

Italy - West Nile Virus Affects a 50-year-old, 4th case in Veneto

CAVARZERE - A000 50-year-old cavarzerano, is hospitalized in the infectious diseases department of the Rovigo hospital, the fourth person affected by the West Nile Virus in 2018 in Veneto.

The first three cases were all found in the province of Rovigo (Polesella, Canaro and Occhiobello), the first about three weeks ago, the other two had been confirmed, July 20, by the laboratory of microbiology of the University of Padua, to which urine samples from the two suspected patients were sent.


Veneto - Wikipedia

 

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Italy - A 70-year-old of Gaiba in grave condition

GAIBA - A new case of human infection from West Nile Virus has been reported in a patient residing in Gaiba. The man is about 70 years old. It is the fourth in the current month. The clinical picture is rather worrying, but the patient reacts to the treatment provided by the infectious diseases department of the Rovigo Hospital.

In addition, in several municipalities of the high, medium and low Polesine the research of the West Nile virus carried out in the mosquitoes captured in recent weeks has given positive feedback highlighting the massive circulation of the virus in the Polesine territory.


Polesine - wikipedia

 

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THREE NILE VIRUS VICTIMS

Dangerous fever continues to spread in Serbia, one area in particular

24.07.2018.

The Western Nile virus continues to expand in Serbia, so far 41 cases of illness have been officially registered this year, but the worst are three deaths.

- By July 24, in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, 41 cases of West Nile fever have been registered with three deaths, in South Bačka District, in men of 72 to 84 years of age who have suffered from other chronic diseases. These cases can be linked to the fever of the Western Nile - they said from Batut.

According to the reports, the cases were reported in the South Banat District, a total of 14 people, followed by SouthBank Nine, Sremskiy, Srednjebanatski and Podunavskiy, and 14 persons in the territory of Belgrade.

According to the data from "Batuta", the diseased persons are 27 males and 14 females, aged 31 to 84 years old.

It is interesting that the virus of the Western Nile, after introductory cases in Belgrade and Pancevo, started to spread to the north of Serbia (Novi Sad, Temerin, Backi Petrovac, Bečej, Sombor, Apatin, Kikinda, Zrenjanin ...), while to the south of the capital no such case was recorded.


See also:

Serbia reports 4 patients infected with West Nile Virus

In Serbia, 11 people have been affected by West Nile Fever

 

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Romania - The first cases of West Nile virus infection were recorded this year.

26 July 2018

According to the National Center for Communicable Disease Control and Control, five Romanians were diagnosed with meningitis or meningo-encephalitis with West Nile virus. Two of them are from Dolj and one from Iasi, Braila and Olt.

The Ministry of Health recommends local authorities to take disinsection measures as soon as possible to prevent the spread.
80% of the infected person has no symptoms, but if you have a high fever and your head is very loud, report to the nearest doctor.

Avoid exposure to mosquitoes, wear long-sleeved clothing and long pants, and install window nets to prevent mosquitoes from entering the house.

Location of Romania - wikipedia

 

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Italy - West Nile, alarm in Veneto: after Rovigo, new cases in Venice and Padua

Published 27 July 2018

ROVIGO - Alarm West Nile in Veneto: after the confirmed cases in the province of Rovigo, new infections were also recorded in the Venetian area, in Mira and in Mellaredo di Pianiga. So the number of people affected in a month by the West Nile virus has risen to ten, with mayors and ASL on alert. In all the affected areas, extraordinary disinfestation interventions were carried out against mosquitoes carrying the viral and transmission forms for people.

Polesine, at the moment, remains the most affected area with four male subjects infected and coming from cities overlooking the banks of the Po. Of the cases that in the short term have occurred on the territory, four are encephalitis, more severe neuroinvasive forms, and a mild viral infection fever. Three others come from the province of Venice.

As reported by the local press, on the same day when the alarm was recorded for a man from Mira hospitalized for encephalitis at the hospital in Dolo, another case was confirmed in Pianiga. This is a fifty-nine who lives in the hamlet of Mellaredo. For three days the man had high fever and headache: the clinical picture did not seem worrying, but some symptoms prompted the family doctor to order specific blood tests that confirmed the presence of viruses. The patient was therefore urgently hospitalized in Padua. The remaining three infections were ascertained in the Bassa Padovana, in the UL 6 Euganea district

 

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The West Nile virus kills an elderly man

Italy - a 77-year-old from Cento died in Ferrara.

07/29/2018

The fever of the West Nile returns to kill. The West Nile virus, which is spreading more and more in Polesine and in the surrounding areas, has claimed a victim in the Ferrara area. In fact, a 77-year-old resident of Cento died at the hospital in Cona (Ferrara).

The old man, Paolo Bonazzi, already suffered from chronic respiratory disorders and the West Nile virus was fatal for him.

The elder had contracted fever through the bite of a mosquito. He was then admitted to hospital on July 24, after the first symptoms appeared. His condition then worsened rapidly, until he was transferred to Cona hospital, where he was diagnosed with a meningoencephalitis from West Nile, the Nile fever, transmitted by Culex mosquitoes. The virus, in the case of the elderly centese, has had a rapid course, as happens in rare cases, resulting in the meningoencephalitis turned out then lethal also because of the already precarious conditions of human health.

In Polesine the cases of people infected by the West Nile virus are already six in a single month, a number that shows how the danger West Nile in the province of Rovigo is now endemic.

 

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Italy, Veneto - 53-year-old woman affected by the West Nile virus

Municipalities of eastern Veneto have planned other disinfestations, especially in green areas and during public events


30 july 2018

Case of West Nile in Fossalta di Piave, the conditions of the 53-year-old woman admitted to the hospital in Treviso improve. The 53-year-old fossaltine, after contracting the virus, has suffered headaches and fever. It is still in the Infectious Diseases department of the hospital of Treviso that has been put in contact with the prevention department of the USL 4.

The issue has now been reported to the mayors of the 21 Municipalities meeting in the Conference of mayors. They will have to initiate actions to strengthen the planned disinfestations, according to the methodologies described in the regional plan to combat infectious disease vectors. Therefore, new adulticidal interventions are now planned for public outdoor events, festivals, fairs, concerts.

The mayors of the various municipalities have already moved in this direction and have contacted the companies that have contracted this service.

 

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july 31, 2018

Italy, West Nile Virus - More new cases in Veneto

The number of West Nile virus cases in the province of Padua rises to five. The data from last weekend indicated three cases, but two other people have been infected in the last days. There is no specific area involved since one case was found in the city, another four in the Upper and Lower Padovana (Albignasego, Gazzo Padovano, Santa Giustina).
Three patients are in need of hospitalization and are in the process of being discharged. Nobody is in danger of life. Meanwhile, the information campaign by the ULSS continues.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

31.07.2018

Two new cases of West Nile Virus in northern Greece


Two new cases of the West Nile Virus were recorded in Central Macedonia, bringing the total for the region to six, the state-run Athens-Macedonian news agency reported on Tuesday.

From the start of the summer season, 22 cases of the virus have been reported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) throughout the country, based on the last data it published on July 26.

“Two people are being treated in hospital for precautionary reasons,” Dimitris Hatzivrettas, the deputy regional governor for Central Macedonia, responsible for public health, told ANA-MPA.

Hatzivrettas said the other four patients have been discharged and are well in their health.

 

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2018. JULY 31.

Number of deaths from West Nile virus rises to 5 in Serbia

This year, 70 cases of West Nile virus have been reported in Serbia, five have died in the infection, Serbian media reported Tuesday on the report of the Batut Public Health Institute in Belgrade.

The most serious outbreak in 2013 was when 238 were ill and 32 people died.

According to the Institute's data, there were illnesses in Belgrade, South Banat, South Bohemia, West Bacau, Danube, North Banat, Central Banat and Syria. Infected are between 22 and 84 years of age.

The diseases caused by the West Nile virus typically occur in periods when there are many mosquitoes, because the virus is spread by mosquito bites. The first illnesses usually occur in the second half of July, with most patients being registered in August and September.

 

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This year brings so many cases and reports. I will not update this thread, it is simply to much to cover. There will be weekly updates by the ECDC, posted here.