Table 1.
West Nile virus (WNV)-positive birds, horses and mosquito-borne, autochthonous humans for the federal states of Germany in 2018/2019. Numbers in brackets indicate the number of samples with WNV sequences acquired in this study.
| Federal State | Birds (2018) | Horses (2018) | Birds (2019) | Horses (2019) | Humans (2019) | Sum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bavaria (BY) | 2 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (2) |
| Berlin (BE) | 3 (1) | 0 | 33 (6) | 0 | 1 (1) | 37 (8) |
| Brandenburg (BB) | 0 | 1 | 6 (3) | 7 | 0 | 14 (3) |
| Hamburg (HH) | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) |
| Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (MV) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Saxony (SN) | 1 (1) | 0 | 21 (8) | 9 (1) | 3 | 34 (10) |
| Saxony-Anhalt (ST) | 5 (2) | 1 | 15 (10) | 19 | 1 (1) | 41 (13) |
| Thuringia (TH) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sum | 12 (6) | 2 | 76 (28) | 36 (1) | 5 (2) | 131 (37) |
In addition to the 37 WNV sequences, two more genome sequences were obtained from WNV-positive mosquito pools collected in Berlin.