WNV Risk Areas Italy - Update

To the Federal Office for Security in the Health Care was given from the Italian authority informed that the WNV NAT testing additionally to the already known given regions now also in the Province Ogliastra (Region Sardinia) is carried out is carried out.

For the already announced announced Province Modena was the Information about a WNV neuroinvasive human disease transmitted.

To corresponding attention in the anamnesis interviews and donor selections is therefore requested.

Further inquiry note

haemovigilanz@basg.gv.at