West Nile fever, nineteenth case in the Oristano area

The number of West Nile virus infections in the Province of Oristano has risen to nineteen. A man over fifty, after displaying West Nile symptoms, arrived at the emergency room at San Martino Hospital, where tests confirmed he had contracted the virus.

The patient is hospitalized in Oristano. The Prevention Department of Oristano's Local Health Authority (ASL 5) immediately began an epidemiological investigation and preventive measures, which include disinfecting the areas where people who contracted the virus live.

The first case of West Nile virus dates back to last May and involved a person over sixty; the second involved a person over ninety who, after contracting the virus and developing the disease, sadly died. The third case, a person over sixty, was discharged from the Oristano hospital and returned home; the fourth, a person over eighty-five, is still hospitalized at San Martino Hospital; the fifth and sixth cases are a person in his fifties and a person in his seventies, both of whom have returned home; the seventh and eighth cases are two people over seventy who are still hospitalized at San Martino Hospital in Oristano; and the ninth, a person over fifty, has already returned home. The tenth to twelfth cases are two people over seventy and one over fifty, still hospitalized at the Oristano hospital. The thirteenth and fourteenth cases are a person over fifty and an person over eighty, also still under observation at the Oristano hospital, where a person over seventy is also still hospitalized, the fifteenth case, while the sixteenth, another person over seventy, has returned home.

The last two cases, the seventeenth and eighteenth, a man over seventy and a man over fifty, are still at San Martino Hospital.