ROMA (ITALPRESS) – From 1 January to 15 September 2026 the ISS’s national surveillance system has 294 confirmed cases of Dengue: 37 of these are autochthonous while all other cases are associated with foreign travel, no death. 28 confirmed cases of Chikungunya were also recorded: 1 of these cases were identified as autochthonous while all others are associated with foreign travel, no death, and 3 cases of Zika virus, all associated with foreign travel, no death. The Higher Institute of Health.
In particular with regard to the Dengue virus 3 episodes of local transmission have been identified: a focolare composed of 23 confirmed cases of infection with exposure in a Municipality of the Province of Livorno (Tuscany). Further epidemiological investigations and contravention activities are currently underway; another outbreak is composed of 8 confirmed cases of infection, all symptomatic, with exposure in some Municipalities of the Province of Lecce (Apulia). Further epidemiological investigations and contrast activities are under way; another outbreak is composed of two cases with exposure in a municipality in the province of Milan (Lombardy). Further epidemiological investigations and contravention activities are underway.
As for the West Nile virus, the eighth weekly bulletin records 657 confirmed cases of West Nile Virus (WNV) infection in man (594 in the previous report), of which 345 manifested themselves in the neuroinvasive form (of which 5 cases imported: 1 Maldives, 1 France, 1 Belgium, 1 Greece and 1 Netherlands), 80 asymptomatic cases identified in blood donors, 224 cases imported from other cases 51 deaths were notified between confirmed cases (one in an imported case). Lethalness, calculated on autochthonous neuro-invasive forms so far reported and confirmed, is 14.7% (in the same period of 2025, 15.8%). In the same period were reported 14 cases of Usutu virus (8 Lombardy, 1 Emilia-Romagna, 1 Marche, 2 Lazio, 1 Piemonte, 1 Veneto). Except to 82 the Provinces with demonstrated circulation of the WNV belonging to 19 Regions ) in the last bulletin were 79 provinces in 19 regions. Last year in the same period were 647 cases reported with 47 deaths.
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