West Nile Virus -- Tunisia
West Nile Virus (WNV) is a member of the flavivirus genus and belongs to the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex of the family _Flaviviridae_. WNV infection is a non-contagious disease, primarily transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes of the genus _Culex_.
WNV is endemic in Tunisia. Since 1997 till 2012, 3 major upsurge of WNV cases were reported in the country. From the beginning of 2018 till last week of November [2018], a total of 377 suspected cases of West Nile fever were
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