Meningitis: alarm in Tuscany, on the death of a 45 year old woman – Blasting News

#Florence, 21 November 2016 – A 45 year-old woman died at the hospital "Santa Maria Nuova "in Florence, where he was admitted in the Emergency room and was in a state serious. Among the various examinations conducted by the medical personnel, the victim has performed the examination of the Pcr, which, after being posted at the laboratory of immunology, Aou Meyer, has confirmed the suspicions of the doctors who tended to the woman: she was suffering from meningococcal type C, better known as #meningitis.

Implemented a prevention system

After the discovery and the diffusion of the news, all of the facilities of hygiene and public health, are promptly mobilized to carry out the epidemiological investigations are necessary to identify the people with whom the woman had close contact of the woman, so that they could be subject to timely prophylaxis. The victim, a resident of Florence, following a control carried out by theHealthcare Company, was found not to be vaccinated against meningococcal C. Remember that meningitis is a very serious disease, difficult to recognize especially in the initial phase; after the diagnosis, in spite of antibiotic therapy is usually prescribed, the percentage of healing is around 50%.

The utility of vaccination

According to a statement by the President of the Istituto superiore di Sanità, Walter Ricciardi, in the last period and especially in Tuscany, have been recorded sporadic cases of meningococcal C; until all the region’s population will not be vaccinated, there could be high risks of contamination. With the last case, ” explains Ricciardi, there was confirmation of the need for a strategy to vaccinate in extensive all the residents of the region, especially those who live in areas where it has been recorded the highest number of cases of people affected by meningococcal type c ‘, Thanks to vaccinations, cases of meningococcal C, in Tuscany, are dropped’ – says Walter Ricciardi – ‘the guard must remain still high, and we must protect especially the most vulnerable and high-risk: the elderly and children’. #Chronicle