Health: West Nile virus: Southwest reports two infections for the first time
About one in five people who contract the West Nile virus develops West Nile fever. Now, for the first time, two people have been registered in Baden-Württemberg who were infected in Germany.
Two locally acquired cases of West Nile virus infection have been confirmed in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in people who had not recently traveled abroad. The infections, which occurred in the Stuttgart and Karlsruhe areas, are believed to have been caused by bites from infected mosquitoes. This is the first time the virus has been detected in humans in the state, although it was found in birds and horses earlier in 2024.
Four cases of locally acquired West Nile infection have been registered nationwide this year, with two in Berlin and one each in Sachsen and Rheinland-Pfalz.
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