{"id":16550,"date":"2020-08-13T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2020-08-13\/el-mosquito-que-esta-detras-del-brote-infeccioso-de-sevilla.html"},"modified":"2020-08-17T11:31:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:31:41","slug":"el-mosquito-que-esta-detras-del-brote-infeccioso-de-sevilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/el-mosquito-que-esta-detras-del-brote-infeccioso-de-sevilla\/","title":{"rendered":"The mosquito behind the infectious outbreak in Seville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mosquitoes are vectors of a hundred viruses that can be transmitted to humans and about 700 that infect animals. This week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosquitoalert.com\/sobre-mosquitos\/culex-pipiens\/\" >a common species in Spain, called <i>Culex pipiens<\/i><\/a>, has caused <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/sociedad\/2020-08-12\/un-brote-de-meningitis-virica-en-sevilla-provoca-16-ingresos-hospitalarios-5-en-la-uci.html\" >an outbreak of meningoencephalitis that has put Seville on alert<\/a>. The Andalusian Minister of Health and Families, Jes\u00fas Aguirre, confirmed this Thursday that 11 of the 19 confirmed cases have tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV). Its main vector is this insect distributed throughout the world and which grows in places with shallow and warm waters. during confinement <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/noticias\/covid-19\/\" >because of the new coronavirus<\/a>, the usual prior pest controls were not carried out and it is very possible that this has encouraged the proliferation of mosquitoes. \u201cThe necessary treatments were not carried out at that time, even though it was allowed,\u201d says \u00d3scar Soriano, an expert on these insects and researcher in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mncn.csic.es\/es\">National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC). <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2020-08-13\/el-mosquito-que-esta-detras-del-brote-infeccioso-de-sevilla.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#039;Culex pipiens&#039;, common in Spain, transmits the West Nile virus<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16816,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions\/16816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}