The Israeli Ministry of Well being reported on Friday a brand new demise case from West Nile fever, bringing the full within the present outbreak within the nation to 12.
The ministry additionally reported 61 new instances of an infection with the virus, growing the full variety of instances detected within the nation because the starting of Could to 236.
It’s the highest annual variety of West Nile fever instances since 2000, throughout which greater than 400 instances of an infection with the virus have been identified in Israel, in response to the ministry’s knowledge.
In the meantime, the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Safety introduced the detection of mosquitoes contaminated with the West Nile virus in a number of places within the central Shfela area.
The ministry added that it directed native authorities to increase the monitoring and extermination actions and referred to as on the general public to dry up sources of stagnant water, the perfect place for mosquitoes to breed. ■
