West Nile Virus Returns to Italy

by: Christa Lesté-Lasserre
West Nile virus (WNV) has re-emerged in Italy, resulting in 28 equine clinical cases, including seven deaths as of last week, according to an epidemiological bulletin produced by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise "Giuseppe Caporale" (IZSA&M), an Italian public health institute. The epidemic began in central eastern Italy in August, in the same ...