{"id":1998,"date":"2026-10-01T16:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:03:44","slug":"west-nile-virus-deaths-rise-to-nine-in-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"West Nile virus deaths rise to nine in Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Four more people in the Netherlands have died from an infection caused \u200bby the West Nile virus in recent \u200cweeks, the public health institution RIVM said on Thursday, following an increased number of cases in \u200bEurope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new fatalities increased the total \u200bnumber of people who have died from \u2060West Nile virus infection in the Netherlands \u200bto nine this year<\/p>\n<p>The first West Nile virus \u200binfection contracted in the Netherlands in six years was reported in August<\/p>\n<p>The total number of infections in \u200bthe country has since risen to 56<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bRIVM said the outbreak had likely reached its peak, \u200cas \u2060the number of new infections has dropped in recent weeks<\/p>\n<p>The virus mostly spreads to people through mosquito bites, and can cause severe \u200billness in \u200babout one \u2060in 150 people infected, according to the World Health Organisation<\/p>\n<p>The WHO \u200bhas said warmer temperatures are giving \u200bmosquitoes \u2060more time and territory to spread the West Nile virus across Europe, which has experienced \u2060a \u200brecord <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/\">series of heatwaves<\/a> this \u200byear<\/p>\n<p>Cases of West Nile virus have also climbed in Greece \u200band <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/two-people-have-died-west-nile-virus-italy-this-year-2025-07-23\/\">Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four more people in the Netherlands have died from an infection caused \u200bby the West Nile virus in recent \u200cweeks, the public health institution RIVM said on Thursday, following an increased number of cases in \u200bEurope. The new fatalities increased the total \u200bnumber of people who have died from \u2060West Nile virus infection in the Netherlands \u200bto nine this year The first West Nile virus \u200binfection contracted in the Netherlands in six years was reported in August The total number of infections in \u200bthe country has since risen to 56&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}