PRO/AH/EDR> West Nile virus – Europe (06): Greece, Italy, Spain, equine

West Nile Virus — Worldwide/Unknown
Monitoring is carried out in equidae by means of periodic examination of sentinel horses, spot checks of resident equidae, and verification of suspected cases of WND.
On 12 Sep 2013, the CESME (National Reference Centre for Exotic Diseases) confirmed 3 clinical outbreaks in the regions of Emilia Romagna and Lombardy. Phylogenetic analyzes carried out on samples of the organs of a horse knocked down made it possible to define the strain as WND-lineage II.

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