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Positive result for West Nile Virus (WNV) in a pool of mosquitoes in the municipality of Caorso (province of Piacenza). The news is reported in a note from the National Institute of Health – National Blood Center, which also involves the province of Lodi.
FEBBRE WEST NILE – THE INFORMATION
After reporting the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Lombardy and "Emilia Romagna (IZSLER), the competent regional coordination structures for transfusion activities have ordered the Introduction of the NAT test for the virus on donations of blood and blood components in the two provinces
S so the precautionary measures for anyone who stays at least one night in these territories: it will be possible give blood only after undergoing a Nat test that gives negative results, otherwise the donor will be suspended from the donation for 28 days.
Nell & # 39; August of last year, a similar positive response to the virus had occurred in the municipality of Castelvetro. There are currently no cases of people affected by the virus in our province
In Italy, 4 confirmed cases of West Nile Virus (WNV) infection have been reported since June , one of which was reported in the neuroinvasive form in Veneto, two cases, such as fever confirmed in Emilia-Romagna and a case identified in a blood donor in Emilia-Romagna.
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