The Ministry of Health is analyzing a ninth death from West Nile virus. This was stated by the branch’s advisor, Rocío Hernández, who argued that the case “needs to be confirmed.”
This possible new victim of the virus was a man”with previous pathologies“, who was admitted “several weeks ago”, declared the head of Health of the Andalusian Government.
In addition to this possible news deaths from West Nile virusthe advisor announced that, for the moment, there are no new cases of infected people, which would be a novelty after weeks in which new people affected by this disease were announced.
Thus, in its report last week, Salud established that the populations of transmitting mosquitoes remained general declinealthough there are specific areas where the risk persists.
The areas where there were more female mosquitoes – those that transmit the virus – were in Los Palacios and Villafranca (Seville) and in La Puebla del Rio in the Brazo del Este (Seville) and at medium levels (Grade II) in Las Cabezas de San Juan (Seville), Villamanrique de la Condesa (Seville) and Vejer de la Frontera (Cádiz).
Province of Cádiz
Regarding densities, in the province of Cádiz, the third week of September, A slight increase in the number of transmitting mosquitoes was observed in the Barbate and Vejer de la Frontera traps.
While in the province of Jaén, the entomological surveillance system through the new traps installed by this Council low densities were detected, and detection of West Nile virus in captured female transmitter mosquitoes is still being analyzed.
