Florence, 22 November 2016 – Has arrived in the hospital at the first light of the sun in a state already very serious. After two hours died, fulminated from the meningitisand which was not vaccinated. He was only 45 years old, lived in Florence for many years, even if it was of Russian origin. A nothing is served the immediate intervention of the medical staff of Santa Maria Nuova.
The diagnosis had come from the laboratories of immunology, Aou Meyer Florence, italy, has only been able to confirm the suspicions: the woman was torn from a septicaemia meningococcal type c What in this 2016 has already killed five people, to which now is added a new victim. Th e subtype St11, a particularly aggressive which is not related to the source and that you cannot stop, and that has impressed from the start of the year, as many as 26 people. That same strain that from the first of January 2015, has caused 57 cases of meningitis, 12 of which are lethal. Added to the other strains, will arrive in less than two years, to 73 cases from tuscany, with 13 deaths. All in Tuscany, only record a third of the Italian cases a year of meningitis.
In these times you also mourns another victim this disease, Lilia Caputo, 64-year-old teacher at Versilia, a native of Bologna. You died in the hospital of Livorno, where he was hospitalized in serious condition. For ten days he fought against a serious form of bacterial meningitis from pneumococcus, according to health authorities does not need instead of antibiotic prophylaxis to those who have lived in close contact with the patient.
The health company Tuscany, the Centre has instead contacted all 20 people at risk of infection from part of the 45-year-old died at the Santa Maria Nuova and submit them to the dose of antibiotic capable of eradicating the bacterium. In other cases of meningitis recorded this year in the region, were launched appeals through the media to track down hundreds of people that had attended the premises or taken public transportation with the people affected by this bacterium. After the first few months of 2016, with ongoing news coverage of sick new and the new the dead with the summer, the alarm was decreased. Now meningitis back to fear. But in spite of that you can’t get that”immunity of the flock” that the Region seeks to achieve with a the vaccination campaign of mass free for all the tuscans up to 45 years. In the areas most affected by meningococcal C, i.e. the valley of the Arno river between Florence, Empoli, and Pistoia and Prato, the immun ization is free for all, also for the students out of the office. Between the end of April 2015 and the 31st of October last, were administered 717.457 vaccinations. A few still, experts say, to be able to eradicate really the fearsome strain C.
“as long as the whole population in the most affected areas of Tuscany you will not be vaccinated, there will still be risks,” said the president of the Institute of health Walter Ricciardi confirming “the necessity of the strategy adopted by Tuscany, with the Iss and the ministry of Health, to vaccinate extensively all residents in areas most at risk for outbreaks that are already registered”. In short, until a substantial number of tuscan (especially in the area most affected) you will not be vaccinated will not form that sort of invisible barrier that will stem the passage of the disease.
The woman fiorentina was not vaccinated. But among the many cases in tuscan these two years, some had already been subjected to immunization. The vaccine, experts explain, has, however, allowed to save their lives, reducing the impact of the disease: every person has a personal reaction that lasts more or less time. And that can be critical to make it.
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