West Nile virus transmission season 2018: Increase in casesArchived
2018 transmission season: human cases exceed the total number in previous seven years
In the 2018 transmission season a higher number of cases were reported compared with transmission seasons in previous years. The total number of reported autochthonous infections in 2018 (n= 2 083) exceeds, by far, the total number from the previous seven years (n= 1 832).Compared to the previous transmission season in 2017, there was a 7.2-fold increase. The highest increase compared to the previous transmission season was observed in Bulgaria (15-fold) followed by France (13.5-fold) and Italy (10.9).
The last case of this transmission season in the EU was reported by France at the end of November. As no new cases with disease onset in the previous four weeks have been reported, this is the final weekly update for the 2018 transmission season. Read epidemiological update for West Nile virus transmission season in Europe, 2018
Last updated: 14 December 2018
