Remains high the alarm to meningitis, and after the case of a child, not vaccinated, who died in Florence, is reported another case in Chiavari, where a woman of 34 years would be hospitalized in critical condition. The diagnosis is confirmed for the 18-year-old died in Castellammare di Stabia.
A child of 22 months, died at Meyer Hospital of Florence struck by meningitis. The laboratory of immunology of the Meyer confirmed the diagnosis of sepsis from meningococcus type “C”. The small had come to the children’s hospital of the florentine in the late evening of yesterday to the edge of an ambulance from the Lucca area. Its condition at the time of arrival, were desperate, and the doctors have tried long to resuscitate him, but unfortunately the baby didn’t make it. As can be seen, the child had not been vaccinated. Immediately activated as prophylaxis for relatives of the child. The death of the child leads to 7 deaths from meningitis type C in 2016. In total there were 60 cases of meningitis C recorded in Tuscany, from 2015 to today, 31 last year and 29 in the current year.
the Diagnosis is confirmed for the 18-year-old Agerola -, And died of meningitis, the 18-year-old Agerola (Naples), arrived yesterday evening in serious condition at the hospital San Leonardo di Castellammare di Stabia (Naples). The diagnosis was confirmed by tests carried out by the hospital stabiese, in collaboration with the hospital Cotugno of Naples, which have established the positivity for ‘neisseria meningitidis’. To tell you the Asl Naples 3 South, which is at the head of the hospital San Leonardo di Castellammare di Stabia
A peruvian 34 years old, is hospitalized in an intensive care unit in the S. Martino hospital of Genoa meningitis meningococcal. His conditions are critical. This was made known by the Asl4. The woman, who resides in Chiavari (Genoa), felt sick in the evening of Christmas. After visited the emergency room at the hospital of Lavagna (Genoa) was transferred into conditions that are already critical in Genoa. To reduce the risk of infection family members and people who attend the house of the woman were subjected to antibiotic prophylaxis.
suspect Case in neapolitan, who died at the age of eighteen – The body of a 18-year-old of Agerola, died yesterday afternoon at the hospital San Leonardo di Castellammare di Stabia for unknown reasons is waiting for the autopsy room mortuary of the hospital. At the time, for a suspicion that it may be a case of meningitis, the morgue was closed. The corpse of the boy should be subjected to post-mortem examination in the hall cemetery at Castellammare di Stabia. The guy is now in a state of unconsciousness in the emergency department of the ‘San Leonardo’ in the afternoon yesterday. In addition to the state soporoso, it had small spots of blood (petechiae) on the skin. Waiting to ascertain the cause of death, all areas of the emergency department, who welcomed the young were subjected to prophylaxis. The walls and the premises were disinfected by spraying. Also the relatives and those who have had contact with the 18-year-old were subjected to pro phylaxis. The doctors, to the arrival of the guy in the hospital, they immediately provided all the medical care of the case. The cat scan revealed no abnormalities, but the boy died almost immediately, and futile were the attempts of the doctors of the resuscitation to try to revive it. The hypothesis on the death of the boy three: “it might be meningitis – explains In De Nicola, director of the intensive care ward of the hospital stabiese – or even coagulation decant disseminated, or even a form of intoxication. The symptoms are the same”. The withdrawal of the liquor would have been able to immediately confirm the possible diagnosis of meningitis, but the boy died before the examination could be made, therefore, only the autopsy will reveal the cause of death.
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