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The Ministry of Health in Andalucia has begun a surveillance of mosquitoes for West Nile virus-carrying insects.  Inspections will begin one month sooner than last year and even two weeks earlier than 2023.  The junta is concerned that the number of mosquitoes carrying the virus may increase due to the rain and heat.  READ MORE Spain’s PM defends solar power …

Tuesday, 3 September 2024, 16:02 Copiar enlace WhatsApp Facebook X (antes Twitter) LinkedIn Telegram Threads Malaga city council is ramping up its efforts to control the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in the city. It comes after town hall received an alert from Junta health authorities that the virus, transmitted to people via mosquito bites, was detected in mosquito samples taken …

IN a risk assessment last week, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), called the increase of imported Mpox cases from African countries ‘highly likely’, raising alarms at the tail end of a season that’s seen outbreaks of a handful of deadly tropical diseases in Spain.  A new, highly transmissible strain of the mpox virus known as ‘clade …

FEARS surrounding a deadly outbreak of West Nile virus have turned a village in southern Spain into a ghost town.  Residents in La Puebla del Rio (pictured above), in Sevilla province, are scared to go out at night following three deaths and at least 10 new cases of the mosquito-borne virus over the past few weeks. According to El Español, …