Livorno, dies at 64 years of age for meningitis: second death in two days in Tuscany – The Republic

Alarm meningitis in Tuscany. Second death in two days. He has made Lilia Agata Caputo, 64 years old, hospitalized for a month at the hospital of Livorno due to pneumococcal meningitis. The woman, a native of Rimini, but resident in Viareggio (Lucca), died due to complications related to a cerebral vasculitis. For the former teacher, who was retired from the last school year, the calvary was started on 24 October with a high fever. It was not in this case of meningococcus, but meningitis pneumococcal, non-contagious.

To die of meningitis C, yesterday in Florence, it was a 45 year old woman, an immigrant Russian who worked as a domestic worker and lived in the area of Care. It is in this case, of the disease that is causing great concern in Tuscany because of the contagious and very widespread in 2015 and in 2015, so much so that even the vaccination campaign initiated by the Region does not seem able to defeat it. The woman had arrived at the Santa Maria Nuova hospital in a serious condition, devoid of meaning. It survived in the hospital for two hours, from 5 to 7. Doctors have had just enough time to realize what was going on, try a therapy and send the samples of drawings at the Meyer. The answer came quickly: infection by meningococcus C has hit again in Tuscany, and this time it has caused a victim, and the twelfth in less than two years and, today, the thirteenth considering also the retired teacher died in Livorno.

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is the subtype of the meningococcal C St11, the one in Tuscany in 2015 and 2016 resulted in 57 patients, of which 26 this year. It is believed very likely to be so for the a series of symptoms reported by the woman companion Russian, among them a tummy ache that usually does not manifest itself along with the bacterial meningitis. The certainty that the responsible agent is the same as almost all other cases recorded in Tuscany in these two years, however, may give only the exams carried out by the laboratory of the Meyer directed by Chiara hotel asiago, the regional referral center for this type of investigation. The results will be available shortly.

The office of hygiene of the healthcare fiorentina yesterday morning has been started, epidemiological investigation, with the search of the contacts of the sick woman. All those who have met in the last ten days will have to take one tablet of the antibiotic. Among these, in addition to friends, acquaintances and family members, in addition to the families where he worked, also the health personnel that has followed it, and then those who were on board of the ambulance that has rescued the other night, and even doctors and nurses who had to turn to the emergency room of Santa Maria Nuova, one of the structures that has seen the most cases of meningitis in Tuscany. In all it would be a few dozen people and then has to close the prophylaxis in a short space of time. The antibiotic eliminates any meningococci C present in the throat of the people. Up to now, this type of prevention has always worked, and in fact, in Tuscany you will not see a case, � �secondary", that is, of infected person directly to another patient, over 10 years. The last time that the disease is passed directly, and not through carriers, from one person to another took place inside of a nightclub. The Region now for several months, asked the office of hygiene to take a prophylaxis, "enlarged", involving the largest number of people possible, to eliminate any carriers of the meningococcal C.

vaccination. news a case of deadly meningitis in Florence, the required vaccine meningococcal are immediately more than doubled. Yesterday at around lunch time yesterday we learned of the death of the 45 year old woman in Santa Maria Nuova in Florence, and there are those who are attached to the telephone to contact the booking Central of Asl in Toscana centre. The numbers are still low, the rest after the summer, you do not vaccinava almost no one, but the percentages explain, however, as fear push towards prevention. Last Monday, the 14th of November, had called 42 people to book the vaccination. Yesterday, the figure rose to 97 and probably today will be even greater. The rest of the medicine that is injected free of charge by the local health authority all tuscan remains the only instrument to cope with the epidemic. Yesterday the department of Health, Stefania Saccardi has again called on citizens to contact the health-ca re companies: “I can Remember that Region has extended the campaign’s extraordinary vaccination against the meningococcal C up to 31 march 2017″. Seen that children between the ages of 0 and 10 years have almost all taken the drug (coverage is 90%), it focuses so much on who has between 11 and 20, seen that the young people are considered the basin the most important of the spread of the bacterium. At the time in that age group the coverage is around 60%. But seen that you are sick well as adults, they, too, are invited to contact the local health unit or your doctor. Throughout Tuscany there are 300 thousand children, and more than 600 thousand people from 11 years old who have made the vaccine. Obviously, these numbers are not enough to prevent the disease from circles. And so this year cases registered were a few less than those of last year, when the number of participants in the campaign was much lower.

deaths. The dead were 12, 6 in 2015 and 6 this year for meningococcal C. The vaccination at the moment is the only way to prevent the disease, although it is not always successful: 11 of the 57 cases, tuscan had taken the medicine that should help prevent meningitis C, even if in two cases the injection was made just a few days before the occurrence of the disease, and then the answer immune responses was not ready. The symptoms of meningitis are high fever and severe pain, particularly to the head, but also, in the case of the subtype St11, the abdomen. Also, when the infection makes its way, on the body appear speckles. Intervene in time with a massive course of antibiotics can make the difference, both in terms of survival and damage.

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