Update: West Nile Virus (WNV) - Italy New
The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) has been informed by the Italian authority that ID WNV NAT testing for donations of blood and blood components has been introduced in the following regions due to cases that have occurred:
Alessandria, Ancona, Asti, Arezzo, Avellino, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Benevento, Bergamo, Biella, Bologna, Brescia, Brindisi, Cagliari, Caltanissetta, Campobasso, Caserta, Catania, Catanzaro, Chieti, Como, Cosenza, Cremona, Cuneo, Fermo, Ferrara, Florence, Forlì-Cesena, Foggia, Frosinone, Genoa, Gorizia, Grosseto, Isernia, L'Aquila, Latina, Lecce, Lecco, Lodi, Lucca, Macerata, Mantua, Massa-Carrara, Matera, Messina, Milano, Modena, Monza Brianza, Naples, Novara, Nuoro, Oristano, Padua, Palermo, Parma, Pavia, Perugia, Piacenza, Pordenone, Ragusa, Ravenna, Reggio Calabria, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, Rome, Rovigo, Salerno, Sassari, Siena, Sondrio, Sud Sardegna, Syracuse, Treviso, Torino, Udine, Varese, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Vercelli, Veneto, Verona, Vicenza
For further information, please refer to the following safety warnings. We kindly ask you to pay attention to this during anamnesis interviews and donor selections.
In Italy, the precautionary measures against WNV transmission through transfusion were lifted on 1 December for the 2025 season.
ATTENTION: The Italian authorities have informed the Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) that ID WNV NAT testing for blood and blood component donations has been reintroduced in the following region due to the occurrence of cases:
Naples
