(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 7 – Lazio registered its sixth and seventh West Nile Virus victims of this year on Thursday when a 83-year-old woman died of it in Latina’s Santa Maria Goretti Hospital and a 77-year-old man died at the Isola Tiberina Gemelli Hospital in Rome.
Both were in the hospitals’ intensive care units and, as in other deadly cases here, they had pre-existing conditions.
There have also been seven deaths in Campania this year linked to the virus, which is spread by mosquitoes, and one in Piedmont.
The health ministry has said the situation is under control and there is no need for alarm as, while areas of Italy previously unaffected have been hit, the contagion and fatality figures are in line with those of recent years. (ANSA).
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