{"id":572158,"date":"2026-08-17T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/572158\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:36:11","slug":"greece-west-nile-virus-cases-top-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/572158\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece: West Nile virus cases top 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Public Health Organization (EODY), since the beginning of the 2026 period, until August 12, a total of one hundred and ten (110) domestic cases of West Nile virus infection have been diagnosed and reported in Greece, of which eighty-one (81) cases presented Central Nervous System manifestations (CNS, encephalitis and\/or meningitis and\/or acute flaccid paralysis) and twenty-nine (29) cases had mild manifestations\/no CNS manifestations.<\/p>\n<p>During the last week, 45 new domestic cases were diagnosed\/reported.<\/p>\n<p>In total, during the period 2026, until August 12, nine (9) deaths have been recorded in patients with virus infection and CNS manifestations, aged over 65 years (median age of deceased: 82 years, range: 66 &#8211; 91 years).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!lkpG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e145503-645c-4a6d-9efa-c2af3fb5f180_1920x1080.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/9e145503-645c-4a6d-9efa-c2af3fb5f180_1920.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"819\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/9e145503-645c-4a6d-9efa-c2af3fb5f180_1920x1080.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1070985,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/211627117?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e145503-645c-4a6d-9efa-c2af3fb5f180_1920x1080.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the National Public Health Organization (EODY), since the beginning of the 2026 period, until August 12,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-572158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}