Institute for Public Health(BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/DS)
The Milan Jovanovic Batut Institute of Public Health announced on Aug. 14 that 24 cases of West Nile fever had been confirmed in Serbia to date this year.
The persons who were found to have the disease come from the districts of South Backa, West Backa, North Backa, North Banat, South Banat, Srem, Central Banat, Kolubara, Nisava and Belgrade.
Among them is one person who came to Serbia after being abroad in Germany, the Batut website noted.
Most of the patients are male, average 63 in age, and a majority (80 percent) had comorbidities -- most frequently diabetes or hypertension.
Most cases confirmed to date feature a neuroinvasive form of the disease -- meningitis or encephalitis, and are hospitalized.
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