site.btaThree West Nile Fever Cases Registered, Two Patients Die

Three Bulgarians have been infected with the West Nile fever, two of whom died, Health Ministry told BTA on Thursday. One of the infected, from the Haskovo Region (Southern Bulgaria), imported the virus from abroad, having travelled to Greece in May and returned to Bulgaria in early August. The other two infected were Sofia residents, both patients have died. So far, there is no evidence that they have been abroad.