Overview

• The Servicio Extremeño de Salud reported three additional infections, bringing Extremadura’s summer total to five, including two hospitalized men in Don Benito-Villanueva and an asymptomatic woman identified through blood-donor screening.
• The Central Veterinary Laboratory in Algete confirmed a positive in an equid in Maó, the first detected case in the Balearic Islands, as the Agriculture Ministry also noted recent animal positives in Almería, Barcelona and Lleida.
• Andalusia’s health department detected West Nile virus in Culex mosquitoes in Pulpí and Mojácar and reported a July equid case in Almería, with no human infections recorded in Almería or elsewhere in the region so far.
• Spain’s national animal and vector surveillance program underpins early alerts for human risk, complemented by blood-donor screening and regional entomological monitoring.
• Murcia has strengthened monitoring through new entomological and diagnostic contracts and reports no positives to date, while authorities emphasize that most human infections are asymptomatic and urge mosquito-control and personal protection measures.