EN
FR
Let the fear season begin….
A disease expert has warned that climate change in Europe is creating ‘more favourable conditions’ for mosquito-borne viruses, like the West Nile virus, to spread across the continent.
Brits planning a holiday abroad this summer have been warned about a potentially deadly virus after two cases were reported in Spain and Italy.
One person in Seville and another in Modena were infected with the West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne virus that shows no symptoms in the majority people. However, approximately 20% develop it and can leave people with body aches, vomiting and skin rashes.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says one in 150 people infected with the virus could also develop severe neurological disease, triggering muscle weakness, seizures and paralysis. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) noted the two recent locally acquired cases of the virus, which is spread via bites from infected mosquitoes.
The first case, in Seville, reported the sufferer experiencing symptoms at the beginning of March. “Although an isolated case, it highlights that the transmission of West Nile virus can occur very early in the year, likely due to suitable climatic conditions,” said the ECDC.
While the next case in Modena was confirmed by Italy as its first West Nile virus infection of 2024 in an official report published on June 27. The case was locally acquired, meaning the individual was infected in Italy and wasn’t bitten by a mosquito with the virus abroad.
Earlier this year a case of West Nile virus infection was reported in Lombardy, with the patient having contracted the illness in Oman, and the same virus was also found in mosquitoes in the Chieti province in June, although no human cases were reported there. This comes after mosquitoes carrying the deadly Zika virus were discovered in 26 European countries.
Brit holidaymakers heading to Majorca and Menorca were issued warnings about tiger mosquitoes carrying lethal diseases after they were spotted in these vacation hotspots. The ECDC warned last month that Europe is experiencing worsening outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases, such as West Nile, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses.
Andrea Ammon, ECDC Director, said: “Europe is already seeing how climate change is creating more favourable conditions for invasive mosquitoes to spread into previously unaffected areas and infect more people with diseases such as dengue. Increased international travel from dengue-endemic countries will also increase the risk of imported cases, and inevitably also the risk of local outbreaks.”
Last year a total of 713 locally acquired human cases of the West Nile virus were detected in 123 different regions of nine EU countries, according to the ECDC. While 22 of these regions were reported as places of infection for the first time in 2023 – 67 deaths were also reported. However, 2023’s case count was lower than the previous year, which saw 1,133 infections reported.
The ECDC noted that “the number of affected regions is the highest since the peak in 2018, indicating a wide geographical circulation of the virus”. The agency published data in February indicating that most cases in 2023 were located in the holiday hotspots of Italy followed by Greece, Romania, Hungary and Spain.
Most people who catch the virus will recover without treatment but in rare cases, they may develop severe illness or even die from the infection. Some will experience flu-like symptoms, for example a fever, body aches and a headache as well as a rash and nausea. Others could end up with muscle weakness, confusion, vision loss, numbness, neck stiffness, diarrhoea and seizures. Treatment normally involves rest, staying hydrated and over-the-counter pain relief.
From mirror.co.uk
Your Tax Free Donations Are Appreciated and Help Fund our Volunteer Website
Disclaimer: We at Prepare for Change (PFC) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news, and therefore may seem controversial. The opinions, views, statements, and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted, endorsed, espoused, or agreed to by Prepare for Change, its leadership Council, members, those who work with PFC, or those who read its content. However, they are hopefully provocative. Please use discernment! Use logical thinking, your own intuition and your own connection with Source, Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not. By sharing information and seeding dialogue, it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm.
So many things are temptations to conspiracies that one should by now learn to know. " They are playing with our minds in any case possible ". It is a "psi op" of common day language by "Them".
Yet the up front illusion of distractions also placed into our all senses, is also to keep off guard and out of grounded position. The As: I am the me my self and I the "I AM". Sure we casually step around side step what is. The bait is set the traps in every level of living is caught its attentive clutch and then they play the second set of deceptive tools again pulling all away from what is actually happening 360 degrees around the feet and we fall for so much. (to error is to be human). Now they are playing cartoon pictures add a spew of words in a constructed witch crafted sentence. And well the results of who all get completely sucked in. They always candor! take no hostages that is the fodder of residual effect. Never see it coming until. its 2 late. And more they kill off as road kill they simply press the peddle more hard.
Play this into the stressors of everyday just making ends meet and all that is clothed on each an everyone of us. Responsibility duty Family Kaleidoscope of thoughts. And now the battlefield of the psyche will dance any sway of the every branch they tug on. Yesterdays conspiracies are the now full on today's reality.
Thought the never then maybe in 1st notice! think the anything goes now. And they are tugging and pulling "testing" on every human facet possible to once again suck those in who live always out of reference. Quite the game of life and cards of life being played by them all. And they call themselves Elites, Yes in a form not so valued but Elite at deception lies false condition Theft of all human rite, and layers of lies up on layers and layers. Plans with in Plans with in Plans and so on. They play word games to make you believe in the lie. Shared that many times. Man is commonly stupid man can be made to believe in "Anything he is Told" and this is their basics of pulling carpet out from under our observance and sensory position standing alive! ?. And to each and every day seeing last 4yrs. "They seem to continue to play and get away with the anything" ( Least in our visual scour of any posts we resonate to read into and or read to learn to avoid. ) Close your all eye to much an.
JUST SAY NO!
Yet another "deadly" virtual virus. Yeah, right.