{Summary}
-- During current surveillance week (14 to 20 August), seventy-six new human confirmed cases of West Nile Virus infection have been reported;
-- So far this year, 351 human cases of WNV infection were confirmed (they were 275 last week); of these:
- 158 were WNND (West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease): 6 in Piedmont, 8 Lombardy, 10 Veneto, 1 Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 8 Emilia-Romagna, 59 Latium, 54 Campania, 2 Basilicata, 5 Calabria, 5 Sardinia;
- 27 were asymptomatic cases in blood donors,
- 162 were West Nile Fever cases,
- 2 asymptomatic and
- 2 symptomatic (unspecified).
-- Among confirmed cases, there were 22 fatalities: 1 in Piedmont, 1 Lombardy, 10 Latium, 9 Campania, 1 Calabria).
- The Case-Fatality Rate in WNND cases is thus far at 13.9% (in 2018 it was 20%, and in 2024, 14%).
-- No confirmed cases of Usutu Virus infection have been confirmed this week.
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Source: High Institute of Health, https://www.epicentro.iss.it/westnile/bollettino/Bollettino_WND_2025_06.pdf
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