The Institute of Public Health named after Dr. Milan Jovanovic Batut reported that until August 6 this year, two cases of West Nile fever were registered in Serbia, which ended in death, reports Tanjug.
These are a man and a woman aged 63 and 50 who had chronic diseases.
A man and a woman from Yuzhnobatsky and Sremsky districts.
The presence of the West Nile virus genome was found in local Culex pipiens mosquitoes in six locations in Pancevo and in two near Belgrade, Tanjug said.