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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
Volume 89, Issue 8, Pages 1315-1322Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.24803
Keywords
arbovirus; emerging; humans; Southern Europe
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- EU Horizon research and innovation programme COMPARE [643476]
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Southern Europe is characterized by unique landscape and climate which attract tourists, but also arthropod vectors, some of them carrying pathogens. Amongseveral arboviral diseases that emerged in the region during the last decade, West Nile fever accounted for high number of human cases and fatalities, while Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever expanded its geographic distribution, and is considered as a real threat for Europe. Viruses evolve rapidly and acquire mutations making themselves stronger and naive populations more vulnerable. In an effort to tackle efficiently the emerging arboviral diseases, preparedness and strategic surveillance are needed for the early detection of the pathogen and containment and mitigation of probable outbreaks. In this review, the main human arboviral diseases that emerged in Southern Europe are described.
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