(ANSA) – ORISTANO, 22 AUG – The first human case of West Nile in 2024 has been recorded in the province of Oristano. A 77-year-old man from Santa Giusta has been hospitalized for several days in the Medicine department of the San Martino hospital in Oristano. The seventy-seven-year-old arrived at the hospital with fever, mental confusion and intestinal problems and then, after further tests, the presence of the West Nile virus was found.
“The patient is stable and not in danger of life – said Maria Valentina Marras, director of the Hygiene and Prevention department of the ASL 5 of Oristano – the situation is under control. Our health company has informed the municipal administration of Santa Giusta and started all the procedures to avoid the spread of the virus in the area surrounding the home of the seventy-seven-year-old and throughout the municipal territory in collaboration with the Zooprophylactic Institute of Sardinia”.
A few days ago in San Vero Milis some killed crows tested positive for West Nile, while in the Oristano area both West Nile Fever and Usutu Virus were found on a pool of captured mosquitoes. The Animal Health Service has already sent a proposed resolution to all the administrations of the province of Oristano to implement a series of preventive actions to avoid the spread of the two viruses.
In 2023, two men, a 72-year-old from Siamanna and a 52-year-old from Siamaggiore, had contracted the West Nile virus. And in animals, a group of mosquitoes tested positive in Torregrande, two crows in Solarussa and a horse in Paulilatino. Last year, three starlings in Oristano and two pools of mosquitoes, one in Arborea and the other in Oristano, also tested positive for Usutu Virus. (ANSA).
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