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A neighbor of La Puebla del Río (Seville) has become the first fatality of the Nile virus this Thursday in the province of Seville, as Telecinco has advanced and Efe from family sources has confirmed. The deceased was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville, according to the same sources.
The largest outbreak of the Nile virus that has been registered in Andalusia already affects 35 people from Coria del Río and La Puebla del Río (Seville), of which 32 are now hospitalized, six of them in the ICU, according to the latest data provided by the Ministry of Health.
The West Nile virus, transmitted by mosquito bites, has caused the outbreak of viral meningoencephalitis in these coastal towns of the Guadalquivir with a large presence of mosquitoes.
The virus, transmitted by the mosquito of the genus Culex, a common mosquito in our environment, causes 0.1% of deaths among those infected, 1% of inflammation in the meninges and the brain [meningoencephalitis], and 20% of fever controllable and 80% asymptomatic cases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).