Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), full PDF document: (LINK). Edited.]
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE THREATS REPORT
Week 33, 11-17 August 2013
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West Nile virus - Multistate (Europe) - Monitoring season 2013
Opening date: 3 June 2013 Latest update: 8 August 2013
Epidemiological summary
As of 15 August 2013, 30 human cases of West Nile fever have been reported in the EU and 119 cases in neighbouring countries in 2013.
EU Member States
ECDC assessment
West Nile fever in humans is a notifiable disease in the EU. The implementation of control measures are considered important for ensuring blood safety by the national health authorities when human cases of West Nile fever occur. According to the EU blood directive, efforts should be made to defer blood donations from affected areas with ongoing virus transmission to humans.
Actions
ECDC produces weekly West Nile fever risk maps during the transmission season to inform blood safety authorities regarding affected areas.
ECDC published a West Nile fever risk assessment tool on 3 July 2013.
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASE THREATS REPORT
Week 33, 11-17 August 2013
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West Nile virus - Multistate (Europe) - Monitoring season 2013
Opening date: 3 June 2013 Latest update: 8 August 2013
Epidemiological summary
As of 15 August 2013, 30 human cases of West Nile fever have been reported in the EU and 119 cases in neighbouring countries in 2013.
EU Member States
- Austria
- One confirmed case, whose place of infection is still under investigation.
- Greece
- Twenty-six cases of WNF have been reported in Greece. The regions affected are Attiki (16), Imathia (1), Kavala (2), Thessaloniki (4) and Xanthi (3). Attiki has reported ten confirmed cases, Thessalonki three and Xanthi one, according to the EU case definition.
- Italy
- Italy reported one confirmed case of WNF in Rovigo province, Veneto region. This province was not affected in 2012.
- Russia
- Fifty-three cases of WNF have been reported in Russia: Adygeya oblast 1, Astrakhanskaya oblast 10, Lipetskaya oblast 2, Rostovskaya oblast 4, Samarskaya oblast 8, Saratovskaya oblast 8, Volgogradskaya oblast 19, and Voronezhskaya oblast 1.
- Serbia
- Thirty-nine cases have been reported from Serbia, 30 in Grad Beograd, three in Podunavski, two in Sremski, and one in each of the districts of Juzno-backi, Juzno-banatski, Kolubarski, Macvanski.
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- One case has been reported in Kocani (Eastern Macedonia).
- Israel
- Twenty-six cases (8 confirmed and 18 probable) have been reported in the Central, Haifa and Tel Aviv districts.
ECDC assessment
West Nile fever in humans is a notifiable disease in the EU. The implementation of control measures are considered important for ensuring blood safety by the national health authorities when human cases of West Nile fever occur. According to the EU blood directive, efforts should be made to defer blood donations from affected areas with ongoing virus transmission to humans.
Actions
ECDC produces weekly West Nile fever risk maps during the transmission season to inform blood safety authorities regarding affected areas.
ECDC published a West Nile fever risk assessment tool on 3 July 2013.
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