Human cases of West Nile fever in Europe and neighbouring countries - 2012

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In Lipetsk region revealed fifteenth case of West Nile virus

In Lipetsk region registered 15 cases of West Nile virus (WNV), the correspondent of IA REGNUM September 5 press service of Rospotrebnadzor the Lipetsk region.

Among infected two children in the summer vacationing in Bobrovsky's Voronezh region. 11 cases among residents of Lipetsk, not to leave the territory of the region (including three children), one - from a resident of the Lipetsk region - one in Hlevenskom area. Two patients reside in the Experimental Station, and two more - in the village. Syrsky mine, four - in the central part of Lipetsk - one in the village. Cottage - one in the area of "Free Falcon", one - in the Tractor Factory . It is not excluded infection in one child Griazinsky district. Currently in hospital stay 12.

Most of the disease occurs in influenza-like form, in two cases there are symptoms of the central nervous system, the disease is moderate to severe.

All patients noted a mosquito bite in the buildings, housing, the residential areas, suburban areas, when leaving the forest.

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1 fatality reported.

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West Nile virus, with 37 people registered, but no epidemic

Tanjug | 05 09th 2012th

West Nile virus, carrying tiger mosquito, was confirmed by another 16 persons, so far registered a total of 37 infected, said the Deputy Director of the Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases Olga Dulovic. Competent Minister Slavica Djukic Dejanovic said earlier that there is no danger that it will develop in Serbia with an epidemic caused by West Nile virus carrying tiger mosquitoes.

Dulovic in a statement for Tanjug indicated that it is the data that relate to the period up to the end of August and will eventually increase the number of infected depend on how many mosquitoes in the coming period will be "active".

She previously said she was at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, twenty patients cared for suspected suffering from viral encephalitis, and in two of them the disease and proven.

As noted, the analysis in some cases take up to two weeks.

Dulovic said that one woman was treated in Pancevo, and then at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, died in mid-August after it was diagnosed with this disease.

All infected persons are aged between 52 and 82 years, which is characteristic for the virus, and as added, the Flyers are in the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Belgrade, as well as the departments in other parts of Serbia.

Dulovic was told that citizens have no cause for concern as there are different forms of viral encephalitis, which can be mild and go unnoticed, and sometimes can be very serious and life threatening.

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West Nile virus made its first victim in Romania.

A woman in Ilfov died from complications caused by the virus

Cantacuzino Institute in Romania today confirmed the first death due to West Nile virus infection. A woman in Ilfov, aged 87, who also have heart problems, died from complications caused by West Nile virus infection.

According to officials from the Ministry of Health, quoted by Mediafax, the incidence of West Nile is similar to last year, when 11 people were found infected with the virus.

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See also: Romania reports 8 neuroinvasive West Nile infections, 1 death

Virusul West Nile a făcut prima victimă în România.

O femeie din Ilfov a murit în urma complicaţiilor cauzate de virus

Institutul Cantacuzino a confirmat astăzi primul deces din România din cauza infectării cu virusul West Nile. O femeie din Ilfov, în vârstă de 87 de ani, care avea şi probleme cardiace, a murit în urma unor complicaţii cauzate de infectarea cu virusul West Nile.

Potrivit unor oficiali din Ministerul Sănătăţii, citaţi de Mediafax, incidenţa cazurilor cu West Nile este similară celei de anul trecut, când au fost depistate 11 persoane infectate cu acest virus.


Infecţia cu virusul West Nile, care se transmite foarte uşor printr-o simplă înţepătură de ţânţar, afectează sistemul nervos central, iar manifestările sunt diferite, spun medicii.

La aproximativ 80 la sută dintre cei infectaţi, cu virus West Nile, nu există simptome, în timp ce unele persoane, până la 20 la sută, pot prezenta o formă uşoar? de infecţie, manifestată prin febr?, dureri de cap, dureri de corp, greaţă, vomă şi uneori creşterea în volum a ganglionilor limfatici şi erup?ie cutanat? pe faţa anterioară şi posterioară a toracelui şi abdomenului. Un procent mic de persoane, aproximativ una din 150 de persoane infectate, pot dezvolta forma severă a bolii - meningo-encefalita, manifestată prin febră ridicată, dureri de cap, redoarea cefei, dezorientare, comă, tremor, convulsii, slăbiciune musculară, pierderea vederii, pierderea sensibilităţii şi paralizie, simptomatologie ce poate persista, iar afectarea neurologică poate lăsă sechele.

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CROATIA

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West Nile virus: 65-year old patient was infected in Vojvodina

The first probable case in Croatia fever caused by West Nile virus was recorded in a patient from Slavonski Brod, confirmed tonight at a press conference the directors of the General Hospital in Slavonski Brod and the Department of Public Health and Posavina board.

In Slavonia-ship General Hospital in early August he was admitted 65-year old man. West Nile virus was found in patients during the tests that were supposed to determine why the man was given an inflammation of the brain and meningitis, it said.

"Today is a viral diagnosis was performed in the Department of mikrobilogiju Croatian Institute of Public Health. Results of the analysis indicated a probable West Nile virus infection, which is yet to be confirmed with additional tests in a reference laboratory. Were patients who stayed in Vojvodina, in Backa the end of July, "said Anthony Cvitkovic director of the County Department of Public Health.

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Three West Nile virus victims in Serbia

SOURCE: TANJUG

BELGRADE -- Three elderly persons have so far died of West Nile virus in Serbia, Clinic for Infective and Tropical Diseases Deputy Director Olga Dulović has said.


Apart from viral encephalitis, the patients had other health complications, she told Tanjug on Thursday, adding that the three patients all died last month, but that it "took time to determine through analyses that the cause of death was really viral encephalitis".

Dulović said on Wednesday that another 16 persons have been infected with tiger mosquito-carried West Nile virus, so the total number of infected was 37.

Dulović said these were data relating to the period until end of August and that possible increase in the number of West Nile patients will depend on how much mosquitoes will be "active" in the coming days.

She said earlier that around 20 patients had been hospitalized at the clinic with symptoms that suggest a possible encephalitis infection, and added that it had been proved that two of them were indeed infected with the virus and that it sometimes takes up to two weeks to get lab test results.

Dulović said that people in Serbia have no reason for concern, since there are different forms of viral encephalitis that could be mild and pass unnoticed, although they can sometimes be very serious and life-threatening.

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West Nile virus in Hungary, 2 human cases reported

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For years, appeared in Hungary in the West Nile virus, which killed three people in Serbia. This year, both at home in two cases, observed Csongrád second half of August and Hajdú-Bihar county.

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The National Public Health Service announced that Hungary regularly diagnosed with the disease. In 2008, for example, nineteen, in 2009, seven in 2010 - not fifteen , but - twenty, in 2011, four cases were recorded, depending on the conditions such as rainfall or temperature much helped or hindered the mosquitoes growth. This year's dry summer weather was not conducive to this.

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The epidemiological situation of West Nile virus (WNV) in the Volgograd region, the 09/07/2012

Volgograd region began epidemiological season on West Nile virus.

West Nile fever - a very dangerous natural focal diseases, registered in the Volgograd region in 1999.

In the 13 years since the activation of a natural focus of WNV in the Volgograd region registered a case of WNV in 1001, of which 52 ended in death. The greatest number of patients registered in Volgograd - 724 cases and Volga - 165 cases.

One of the contributors to the natural focus of WNV is establish a high average temperature of air.

As at 7 September 2012. Volgograd region recorded 178 cases of WNV disease, including 4 deaths.

In 80% of cases of WNV infection occurred in the wild in Gorodischenskoe, Sredneakhtubinsky, Michael, Ilovlya, Oktyabrsky district, Volga and mainly in cottages Vinnovka n, n Mikoyan about. Sarpinskiy about. Green, 4-5 Gateway.

In 20% of cases, the victims reported mosquito bites on a residence in the private sector Dzerzhinsky Traktorozavodskogo, Soviet, Voroshilov, Krasnooktyabrskiy, Red Army, the Kirov district of Volgograd.

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The number of cases of West Nile fever in the Lipetsk region increased to 19

Nineteenth case of West Nile virus (WNV) was detected in the Lipetsk region, told a REGNUM September 10 press service of the regional administration Rospotrebnadzor .

Two cases are diagnosed in children, summer vacationing in Bobrovskoye district of Voronezh region, 13 cases among residents of Lipetsk, not to leave the territory of the region, including the three children. Have been identified in Lipetsk, Hlevenskom, Dobrinsky areas, and in the Experimental Station, pos. Syrsky mine, pos. Summer, in the "Free Falcon" in the Tractor Factory in other parts of Lipetsk. It is not excluded infection in one child Griazinsky district.


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In Astrakhan Region 55 people became ill with West Nile fever, two died

55 cases of West Nile reported in the Astrakhan region in two months - in the period from July 2 to September 6, the correspondent of IA REGNUM press service Rospotrebnadzor .

30 cases were registered in Astrakhan, and a few cases in Znamenskoye in Liman, Enotaevsky, Ikryaninsky, Kamyzyaksky, Harabalinskom, Volodarsky, Krasnoyarsk, Narimanov and Volga regions. Recorded seven imported cases of the disease - from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Krasnodar, Volgograd region and out of Grozny.

In 73% of patients present with the disease was moderate with no damage to the central nervous system (CNS), in 16.4% of cases, there is a severe course of the disease. Registered two cases of death - the residents Liman district and the city of Astrakhan. Age of cases - from three to 77 years, children under the age of 14 years were 13 cases.


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Last week the first suspected West Nile patient was reported in Croatia.

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Three infections with West Nile virus suspected in Osijek

Zagreb, 10 September (STA) - Croatia recorded three possible infection with West Nile virus, the Croatian National Institute of Public Health announced today.

New cases of suspected infection in three patients, aged between 48 and 76 years and are currently in the hospital in Osijek. While the Croatian otherwise have not officially confirmed the first suspected of being infected with West Nile virus.

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Taking more victims of West Nile virus in Serbia

September 10 Monday

Two more patients have died from West Nile virus in Serbia. That's five victims in the country - was the news program on the Danube.

The management agency for infectious and tropical diseases clinic treated 35 people, the virus-induced meningitis, most of them in a coma.

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In Lipetsk region 24 cases of West Nile virus identified

13.09.2012

The region registered 24 cases of West Nile fever. Majority of the infected visited the city and complained about numerous mosquitoes.

Rospotrebnadzor employees, formation of local foci of infection: in the floodplain of the Voronezh River in the districts and villages Syrskoe Korovin, Township Free Falcon, in ponds in the Experimental Station, ponds, garden community "Metallrug-4." And as in the reservoir near Matyrskom Plekhanov forest, village and Maley in wetlands Holiday village. Just focus of infection may be a basement apartment buildings.

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Volgograd region WNV ill nearly 200

14/09/2012 12:00

DUBAI, September 14 - RIA Novosti, Irina Ilicheva. Quantity contracted West Nile virus (WNV) in the Volgograd region for two weeks in September rose to 192 people, the number of deaths has not increased, according to a Friday online Territorial Rospotrebnadzor.

Epidemiological season for West Nile virus in the Volgograd region began in mid-July. On August 31 in the Volgograd region there were 154 cases of WNV, including 4 deaths.

"As of September 14 in the Volgograd region recorded 192 cases of WNV, including 4 deaths. In 70% of cases of WNV infection occurred in the wild," - said in a statement.

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8 deaths of WNV in Greece

KEELPNO reports 122 cases with 83 showing neurological symptoms and 8 fatalities as of september 9 2012 in the latest available update.

VIA ECDC 129 cases were reported today.

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From the beginning of 2012 until the 09/06/2012 (time 16.00), 122 cases have been diagnosed
infection with West Nile virus and eight deaths have been recorded.

Of the 122 cases, the 83 showed manifestations of the central nervous system (encephalitis and / or meningitis and / or acute
flaccid paralysis) and 39 cases of minor events (febrile illness) (Table 1). an imported
case of the U.S., which was diagnosed in Greece in June 2012, is not included in following analysis.

KEELPNO - PDF - in Greek

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In Samara region four cases of West Nile virus revealed

In the Samara region in January-July recorded four cases of West Nile fever, told IA REGNUM-VolgaInform the press service of the Samara Rospotrebnadzor .

In the past, cases of such disease in the region is not recorded. It is a viral disease, which is a vector of mosquitoes.

REGNUM