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West Nile Fever–a Reemerging Mosquito-Borne Viral Disease in Europe

Year: 1999

Type: review

Abstract: West Nile virus causes sporadic cases and outbreaks of human and equine disease in Europe (western Mediterranean and southern Russia in 1962-64, Belarus and Ukraine in the 1970s and 1980s, Romania in 1996-97, Czechland in 1997, and Italy in 1998). Environmental factors, including human activities, that enhance population densities of vector mosquitoes (heavy rains followed by floods, irrigation, higher than usual temperature, or formation of ecologic niches that enable mass breeding of mosquitoes) could increase the incidence of West Nile fever.

Source: Emerging infectious diseases

DOI: 10.3201/eid0505.990505

Authors: Zdenek Hubálek, Jirí Halouzka

Institution: Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Biology

Language: English

Topic: Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2005578471