The number of human cases of West Nile virus infection in the Province of Oristano has risen to twenty-one.
a man over eighty is hospitalized at San Martino hospital .
The Prevention Department of the Local Health Authority (ASL 5) has already started the epidemiological investigation and prophylaxis activities , which include the disinfection of the residential areas of people who have contracted the virus by the competent authorities.
PREVIOUS HISTORY – The first case of West Nile 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 four cases, two over seventy and two over fifty, are still at San Martino Hospital.
(Unioneonline)
