Still a victim of meningitis in Tuscany: a child of 22 months died at Meyer Hospital in Florence. The laboratory of immunology confirmed the diagnosis of sepsis, meningococcal type C. The little a native of Lucca, had come to the children’s hospital in the late evening of Wednesday, December 28 aboard an ambulance. Its condition at the time of arrival, were desperate, and the doctors have tried a long time resuscitated, but unfortunately the baby didn’t make it. As has been shown, was not vaccinated.
Other two children have recently been admitted to the Meyer in Florence after being affected by meningitis type C, managing to save. The first case involved a small eight years 22 November. The child had been "protected" from the vaccine, which was administered in 2009, which has mitigated the aggressiveness of the infection. Hospitalized instead of from the 17th December a child of four years, he is vaccinated, but initially was in a serious conditions in the intensive care unit of the pediatric hospital. On the 26th of December, the director of health Meyer, Francesca Bellini, has announced that health conditions of the small improved, explaining that now is located in the department of sub-intensive therapy.
The meningitis type C continues to claim victims in Tuscany. In 2015, they are dead 7 people: the six who had contracted the strain C, and strain B. In 2016, they have lost the life other 6 people, all to the strain C, before the death of the little 22-month-old. From the beginning of the 2015 to November 2016, in Tuscany, there were 58 cases of meningococcal C: 27 just in the last 12 months. This type of use is most prevalent: in two years by 74 cases in total meningitis in the region, 58 were precisely of the strain C. The most recent victim was the 45 died on the 21st of November in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence.
suspect Case in the neapolitan – A 18 Agerola passed away yesterday afternoon at the hospital San Leonardo ” Castellammare di Stabia for reasons that are still unknown. Pending the autopsy, the hypothesis on the death of the boy three: "it Could be meningitis – explains the In De Nicola, director of the department of Resuscitation – coagulation transfer to a disseminated or a form of intoxication. The symptoms are the same".
