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West Nile virus transmission: results from the integrated surveillance system in Italy, 2008 to 2015
- Source :
- Eurosurveillance
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), 2016.
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Abstract
- In Italy a national Plan for the surveillance of imported and autochthonous human vector-borne diseases (chikungunya, dengue, Zika virus disease and West Nile virus (WNV) disease) that integrates human and veterinary (animals and vectors) surveillance, is issued and revised annually according with the observed epidemiological changes. Here we describe results of the WNV integrated veterinary and human surveillance systems in Italy from 2008 to 2015. A real time data exchange protocol is in place between the surveillance systems to rapidly identify occurrence of human and animal cases and to define and update the map of affected areas i.e. provinces during the vector activity period from June to October. WNV continues to cause severe illnesses in Italy during every transmission season, albeit cases are sporadic and the epidemiology varies by virus lineage and geographic area. The integration of surveillance activities and a multidisciplinary approach made it possible and have been fundamental in supporting implementation of and/or strengthening preventive measures aimed at reducing the risk of transmission of WNV trough blood, tissues and organ donation and to implementing further measures for vector control.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Zika virus disease
medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology
viruses
030106 microbiology
030231 tropical medicine
Disease
medicine.disease_cause
Surveillance and Outbreak Report
Dengue fever
Disease Outbreaks
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Virology
Environmental health
medicine
Animals
Humans
Organ donation
Chikungunya
Horses
environmental and occupational health
Transmission (medicine)
Incidence
public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
italy
west nile virus
incidence
integrated surveillance
epidemiology
virology
medicine.disease
Insect Vectors
Geography
Italy
Vector (epidemiology)
Population Surveillance
Horse Diseases
Seasons
West Nile virus
Sentinel Surveillance
West Nile Fever
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15607917 and 1025496X
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Eurosurveillance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....244249ab7fdfdd9d84bbd83afd503eac