The Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, through the General Directorate of Public Health and Pharmaceutical Regulation, has confirmed the death of a person infected with the Nile virus in Mairena del Aljarafe (Seville), which brings the total number of victims of this disease in Andalusia.
The deceased, who had previous pathologies, had been diagnosed weeks agoas the ministry indicates in a press release, in which it adds that last week no new cases were confirmed, which remains at 87 in the community. The presence of Nile virus was detected in captures made in the municipality of Benalup Casas Viejas in Cádiz, in the municipality of Jaén de Villanueva de la Reina and in La Puebla del Río in the Brazo del Este in Seville, while the result of the The remaining traps in the provinces of Seville, Cádiz, Córdoba and Jaén are negative.
Salud reported that compared to the previous week, the number of Culex perexiguus captures remains low in most traps in the municipalities of La Puebla del Río, Coria del Río and Palomares de Río, although two traps located in the southern and northern areas of Coria del Río give high values.
Furthermore West Nile virus detected in three horses: one in Villanueva de la Reina in Jaén, one in Beas in Huelva and another in the Malaga municipality of Cártama, communicated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development.
According to data obtained from different information sources, populations of potentially transmissible female mosquitoes maintain the low densities observed during the first three weeks of September in most traps. However, high levels (Grade III and IV) of these species are obtained in Los Palacios and Villafranca (Seville) and Coria del Río (Seville) and medium levels (Grade II) in the eastern arm of La Puebla del Río (Seville). ). , Villamanrique de la Condesa (Seville) and Bárbate (Cádiz).
