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Disease Outbreaks , Population Surveillance , West Nile Fever/epidemiology , West Nile Fever/virology , West Nile virus/isolation & purification , Adolescent , Adult , Age Distribution , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Animals , Child , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Female , Greece/epidemiology , Humans , Incidence , Logistic Models , Male , Middle Aged , Polymerase Chain Reaction , RNA, Viral , Sex Distribution , West Nile Fever/blood , West Nile Fever/cerebrospinal fluid , West Nile Fever/diagnosis , West Nile virus/immunology , Young AdultABSTRACT
Between May and September 2011, twenty cases of Plasmodium vivax infection were reported in Greek citizens without reported travel history. The vast majority of those cases were confined to a delimited agricultural area of Evrotas, Lakonia. Conditions favouring locally acquired transmission of malaria, including the presence of competent vectors and migrants from endemic countries exist in Greece, underscoring the need for the development of an integrated preparedness and response plan for malaria prevention.
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Malaria, Vivax/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Greece/epidemiology , Humans , Infant , Male , Middle Aged , Young AdultABSTRACT
Between 16 July and 21 August 2011, 31 cases of West Nile neuroinvasive disease were reported from four regions in Greece. Of these, 17 occurred in districts that had not been affected in 2010. The reoccurrence of human cases in two consecutive years (following the large 2010 outbreak) and the spread of the virus in new areas suggest that West Nile virus is established in Greece, and its transmission may continue to occur in the future.
