there is concern about the spread of West Nile virus

The mosquitoes of the species "Culex Pipiens" infected, or those imputed by the transmission of the West Nile virus are now spread throughout the region of Veneto; only the provinces of Belluno and Vicenza do not seem to have been affected by their diffusion.

The first case of infected mosquito in 2018 was reported twenty days ago in Verona, after which other outbreaks were detected in the Padua region.

But the news that makes the most noise, of course, is that related to the first case of contagion with development of neuro-vegetative disease confirmed by the laboratory badysis: victim of 39, a 58-year-old resident of Rovigo, who is in the Department of Infectious Diseases.

He is the counselor for health Luca Coletto to explain on the pages of "La Nuova Venezia": "The human contagion in the neuroinvasive is not not fortunately frequent, but when presented, the health system, already alerted, is able to quickly recognize the disease and provide effective treatment " .In most cases (about 80%), however, the infection is asymptomatic and therefore difficult to read, in some of these situations, especially when the patient is an elderly person or debilitated individual, neurological complications may occur, such as meningitis or encephalitis

West Nile virus was isolated for the first time in our country 2008 from blood samples of an asymptomatic Rovigo donor

He Giorgio Palù President of the Society of virology and director of the unit of microbiology and virology of the hospital of Padua, to deal with the study and dissemination of the virus in the Veneto region, going even up to offer the idea of ​​a vaccine. "The lineage of West Nile today is different: the previous one came from the Mediterranean Basin, now from Eastern Europe" tends to clarify the professor on the pages of the same newspaper. And it is always him that draws attention to the danger of the spread of other diseases transmissible by infected mosquitoes, such as Chikungunya (reported in Rome and Romagna), Dengue (in Croatia and in the French region of the Camargue, transmitted by the tiger mosquito) then the Crimea-Congo a haemorrhagic fever triggered by the bite of a tick.

The only way to stop such a phenomenon is to intervene by targeted disinfestation but we often face the problem of scarce resources available in the coffers of municipalities.