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Austria reports cases of West Nile Fever - 2015

Gert van der Hoek

Gert van der Hoek

In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
- 2 clinical cases
- 5 asymptomatic cases through blood screening

01/10/2015

Seven West Nile virus infections in 2015 in Austria

Seven cases of West Nile Virus infections have been registered so far this year in Austria. The now wrote the expert Stephan Aberle and Franz X. Heinz in the "Virus Epidemiological Information". The probable site of infection was in all these cases in Northeast Austria, where the virus has been detected in mosquitoes and birds.

Clinical cases in 2009, one in 2010 and two proven this year. Moreover, the virus within the blood donor screening could be detected in asymptomatic individuals, namely in 2014 once; "In Austria have been two autochthonous (NB not imported.). and this year already five times ", the experts established by the Department of Virology at the Medical University of Vienna.

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West Nile fever in Austria and Romania

D?SSELDORF. Until the end of September, six cases of West Nile fever (WNF) were registered in Austria, reports the CRM Centre for Travel Medicine. Thereafter, at least two people have been infected in Vienna. The infections occurred since 2009 in the country isolated on.

Reports of sporadic WNF cases there is also from Romania. So (region Wallachia) was reported in August, the first neuro-invasive disease WNF of the year in Europe from the Dolj county. By early October, there were 17 infections.

The mosquito-borne, flu-like illness may be more severe especially in immunocompromised people. Travellers are advised to use mosquito repellent.
 
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