Alarm has been marked in Italy as o o West Nile virus He has made his appearance, so that five people have lost their lives.
According to the competent health authorities in Italy, already Five people died after they were infected by the West Nile virus.
In the Campania region, with the capital of Naples, an elderly 80 -year -old man died yesterday (28.07.2025), with serious underlying diseases.
Today Tuesday (29.07.2025), it became known that at the end of last week, a 74 -year -old man suffered from kidney failure and was infected with the virus, lost his life, always in a Naples hospital.
Last week, other three people died, because of complications caused by the virusin the wider area of Latina (located 78 kilometers south of Rome) and in the city of Novara, near Turin.
Italian doctors emphasize that in most cases, anyone who is infected by the virus (transmitted by mosquitoes) remains asymptomatic or transcend symptoms similar to those of the influenza, within a few days, without the need to be admitted to the hospital.
In the elderly with underlying diseases and attenuated immune system, however, there is more likely more serious problems, starting with serious complications in the neurological system.
Compared to last year, the total number of cases so far does not increase.
What has changed is the record of the largest percentage of incidents (until now is 28) in the Latina area, where there are large plains with agricultural land and, until a century ago, malaria was widespread.