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Blood Donation Ban to Curb West Nile Virus

ATHENS – Health authorities in Greece have banned residents of sixteen districts in the greater Athens area from donating blood in a bid to avert the spread of the West Nile virus, a disease carried by mosquitoes which can cause encephalitis, as daily Kathimerini reports.
The ban has been imposed on several southern suburbs of Athens including Palaio Faliro, Aghios Dimitrios, Argyroupoli, Elliniko, Alimos, Ilioupoli and Glyfada. It also applies to Kallithea, Nea Smyrni and Moschato, Neos Kosmos, Mets, Pangrati and Aghios Ioannis, as well as Halandri and Maroussi, north of Athens.
Visitors to these neighborhoods are also forbidden from giving blood if they have stayed at least one night. Similar measures have been imposed on Evia, Samos, Naoussa and Thessaloniki.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO), 40 people have been diagnosed with the disease this year and two have died. Of the 40 cases, 10 were infected in Palaio Faliro.
(source: ANSA)

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