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CAVARZERE. Five cases reported in the Veneto region, including one in the territory of Cavarzere. The West Nile virus is beginning to cause some concern, especially in the region of Polesine, between Adige and Po, where mosquitoes of the genus "culex", which cross their bites transmit the viral form, proliferate more important. In Cavarzere, a 77-year-old man, who was showing symptoms of the disease, had been taken to the Adria hospital in the last days, then rushed to Rovigo Hospital, where he was admitted to the Department of Infectious Diseases. the conditions are defined by doctors "serious means". Of the five cases, four are encephalitis, more severe neuroinvasive forms and a mild viral fever.
The return to the elderly is probably an occasional infection, since the man usually had activities in a vegetable garden located near an uncultivated area and where the insect was probably nested. For the hospitalization of seventy-seven years was necessary after being struck by dysentery and a high fever not quite usual. And it is after hospitalization in Rovigo that the virus has been recovered, as confirmed by the Microbiology Laboratory of the University of Padua, which has highlighted the typical symptoms of West Nile fever in its most severe form.
The municipal administration was quickly activated with the local health authority 3 competent for disinfestation work already done yesterday. In this case, in fact, established that four basins of mosquitoes caught in the Cavarzere territory proved positive to the virus, it was provided to treat the larval centers that are located around the site, where the viral circulation was found to a radius of 500 meters, so the information activity has been strengthened and, in fairs and public events, disinfestations with adulticides will be carried out.
The virus, which appeared in Veneto in 2008, is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes, especially at dusk and
at night, brings fever, headaches, nausea and vomiting. high, muscle weakness and neurological complications such as encephalitis, the symptoms that actually presented the seventy-seven.
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