{Summary}
-- During current epidemiological week (from 25 September to 1rst October 2025), 38 new confirmed human infection with West Nile Virus have been reported.
-- Since the beginning of the epidemic season, 718 confirmed cases have been recorded in Italy (they were 680 in the last bulletin), of these:
- 341 were West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease (WNND): 15 in Piedmont, 51 Lombardy, 30 Veneto, 4 Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 1 Liguria, 27 Emilia-Romagna, 11 Tuscany, 1 Marche, 84 Latium, 2 Molise, 79 Campania, 2 Apulia, 2 Basilicata, 5 Calabria, 2 Sicily, 25 Sardinia,
- 57 were asymptomatic cases in blood donors,
- 309 were West Nile Fever cases (1 imported from Kenya, 1 Egypt, and one Maldives),
- 4 asymptomatic cases,
- 7 unspecified cases.
-- Among confirmed cases, there have been 49 fatalities: 7 in Piedmont, 5 Lombardy, 2 Emilia-Romagna, 18 Latium, 14 Campania, 2 Calabria, 1 Sardinia.
- The Case-Fatality Rate in WNND cases was 14.4% (it was 20% in 2018 and 14% in 2024.
-- This season 10 confirmed Usutu virus human infections have been recorded: 2 in Piedmont, 3 Lombardy, 2 Veneto, 3 Latium.
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Source: High Institute of Health, https://www.epicentro.iss.it/westnile/bollettino/Bollettino_WND_2025_12.pdf
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