{"id":628687,"date":"2026-10-12T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628687\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:50:09","slug":"greece-west-nile-virus-infections-rise-to-443","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628687\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece: West Nile virus infections rise to 443"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Hellenic National Public Health Organization (EODY), 20 additional autochthonous West Nile virus (WNV) cases were diagnosed\/reported, bringing the total for 2026 through October 8 to 443.<\/p>\n<p>Of this total, two hundred and eighty-two (282) cases presented with Central Nervous System (CNS) manifestations (encephalitis and\/or meningitis and\/or acute flaccid paralysis), and one hundred and sixty-one (161) cases had mild manifestations or no CNS manifestations.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, forty-seven (47) deaths have been recorded among patients with the infection, all aged over 52 years (median age of deceased: 82 years; range: 53\u201392 years).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Hellenic National Public Health Organization (EODY), 20 additional autochthonous West Nile virus (WNV) cases were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-628687","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\/628687","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=628687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}