European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance, 36(27), 2022
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2022.27.36.2200653
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As in 2018, when a large West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic occurred, the 2022 vector season in Italy was marked by an early onset of WNV circulation in mosquitoes and birds. Human infections were limited until early July, when we observed a rapid increase in the number of cases. We describe the epidemiology of human infections and animal and vector surveillance for WNV and compare the more consolidated data of June and July 2022 with the same period in 2018.