THE Junta de Andalucia has released a detailed list of municipalities most at risk from West Nile virus.
The map and classification of each municipality can be found on the regional government’s website here.
Each municipality is categorised as low risk, medium risk or high risk.
Sevilla is the most at risk out the region’s eight provinces, with 42 municipalities placed in the ‘high risk’ category.
Cadiz is also in a precarious position, with 16 municipalities classed as ‘high risk’.
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Malaga has more low risk areas, however the Costa del Sol is branded a medium risk, while multiple neighbouring inland municipalities are high risk.
It comes amid a rapid rise in temperatures following weeks of unusually wet weather, which typically favours a boom in mosquito populations.
Last year, 11 people died from the mosquito-borne infection in Spain, most of them in Sevilla.
Sevilla was the epicentre of the West Nile outbreak last summer thanks to its extreme heat and vast areas of marshlands, including in the Doñana National Park and along the snaking Guadalquivir River.
The symptoms of West Nile virus will usually show within three to 14 days of exposure to the disease.
They include a fever, headache, body aches, joint pains, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes and sometimes a rash.
West Nile can turn deadly if the carrier develops severe symptoms that lead to West Nile neuroinvasive disease, causing conditions such as meningitis or encephalitis (swelling of the brain).
