“…Until very recently, no autochthonous human cases were published in Germany and WNV RNA was not detected in birds and mosquitoes in Germany (Michel et al., ). But WNV infections are sporadically imported into Germany (Frank, Faber, Hellenbrand, Wilking, & Stark, ; Gabriel et al., ; Schultze‐Amberger, Emmerich, Gunther, & Schmidt‐Chanasit, ).…”