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Expert interview about the spread of West Nile virus in Germany - part 2
Teil 2: The West Nile Virus – also a threat to animal health The West Nile virus is a mosquito-transmitted zoonotic pathogen, which was first isolated in Africa in the 1930s. In recent decades, the virus has spread to many regions of the world. By now, it has also reached Germany. Since 2018 there have been the first confirmed cases of West Nile virus in Germany. In 2019 the first infections were confirmed in humans in Germany. In the first part of our interview series we spoke to Prof. Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit of the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, who answered