Italy experiencing measles epidemic after fall-off in vaccinations

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Italy experiencing measles epidemic after fall-off in vaccinations
Reuters in Rome

Wednesday 19 April 2017 21.20 BST
Last modified on Wednesday 19 April 2017 21.32 BST

Italy has announced that it is experiencing a measles epidemic following a fall-off in vaccinations, as the United States issued a warning to visitors about the outbreak of the potentially fatal disease.

The Italian health ministry said on Wednesday there had been almost 1,500 registered cases of measles so far this year against some 840 in all of 2016 and some 250 in 2015.

?Italy and Romania have an epidemic at the moment,? said Walter Ricciardi, president of the Higher Health Institute, adding that he understood why the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory this week.

Ricciardi told Radio 24 that unlike in Italy, the United States had launched a large campaign to convince parents to vaccinate their children...

 

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Source: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/measle...rted-european-immunization-week-begins-99185/


Measles in Italy: Additional 136 cases reported, European Immunization Week begins
by Robert Herriman
April 26, 2017

In a follow-up on the measles outbreak in Italy, the number of cases has increased by 136 since our last report, bringing the total to 1739 cases since the beginning of the year, according to Italian health officials.

Some other data pertaining to the Italy measles outbreak include: 88 percent of the cases are unvaccinated, one third of cases suffered at least one complication, 39 percent required hospitalization for their illness, the median age of the cases in 27 years and 159 cases among healthcare workers...

 

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More Than 1,900 Cases of Measles in Italy This Year
Rome, May 4 (Prensa Latina) From January to April 2017, were 1,920 measles cases reported in Italy, 88 percent of which were not vaccinated, reported today the Ministry of Health''s weekly bulletin.

Thirty-four percent of the cases had at least one complication and in the last week were reported 29 infested.

The institutional computer graphic, also conceived by the Higher Institute of Health (ISS) and created to inform the course of the epidemic timely, in its sixth edition covers until April 30.

According to this document, the average age of the total cases was 27 years, 73 percent over 15 years and only 120 children under one year.

92 percent were detected in Piedmont, Lazio, Lombardy, Tuscany, Abruzzo, Veneto and Sicily.

In the first four months of 2017, March was the one with the highest incidence when there were 818 cases, and the April figure with 385 was five times greater than the 76 patients treated by that cause in the same month of 2016...

 

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Measles, increased 611 percent since the beginning of 2017. Rome and Turin the most affected provinces

We are in the midst of a wave of epidemics, fostered by the average decrease in immunization coverage which allows the virus to circulate, and it is still difficult to understand when you run out. The distribution of cases in Italy is uneven, but there are seven regions where it concentrates 91% of cases. Here, disclosed for the first time, the provincial data provided by the Higher Institute of Healthof Cinzia Lucchelli

May 26, 2017

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From recommended time, the anti-measles vaccine becomes mandatory by decree. It appears in the shortlist of 12 vaccines a child must have made for access to the nursery and kindergarten. A measure deemed necessary due to a drop in vaccination coverage and the considerable increase of cases: in Italy have been since the beginning of 2581, 611% more than the same period last year. We are in the midst of a wave of epidemics. The cases are concetrati in seven regions, the most affected provinces are Rome, Turin, Milan, Padua and Chieti.

The World Health Organization had expected and called for the elimination of measles in European countries for 2015. However, notes the ISS, ISS, "yet we see epidemic waves like the one that has dramatically occurred quest ' year in Italy. " They are right now, "susceptible to measles, why not vaccinated thousands of children, adolescents and young adults." Worries also the increasing number of measles cases among health care workers, a category of workers at particular risk of contracting but above all to convey the virus, and therefore always strongly recommended to get immunized: year to date they are sick 215. This
" It involves additional problems for health workers themselves with serious injury also for the health of citizens. " The average age has risen, he is now 27 years, and this accounts for more hospitalizations than in the past.

The epidemic wave in progress

, 89% of the 2,581 people who have become ill from January to May 21, 2017 was not vaccinated, 7% had received only one dose of vaccine. 34% had at least one complication, 40% were hospitalized, 15% moved from the emergency room. Most of those who got sick (74%) had 15 years or more, at 155 were neonates of less than twelve months, the subjects for which the disease can be particularly dangerous.

Source: National Institute of Health. The year 2017 is not complete, arrives at May 21, 2017

The trend from 2013 to date is fluctuating with a peak in 2017. "The measles epidemic has a course - explains Gianni Rezza , epidemiologist and director of the infectious diseases department of the Institute Institute of Health -. It is normal that there is a wave every two or three years, but this year the peak is higher. It may be because it is accumulated susceptible population and the average drop in vaccination coverage. " The data available to date coming in 2015, "but even those that have him explain: immunization coverage is below the threshold of 95% and thus the virus circulates," said Rezza.

The cases of 611% Increase

Comparing the cases of 2017 (from January 2581 to May 21) with the same period of 2016 (363) it finds that the increase was 611%, 2189 cases more. There was an average decrease in measles vaccination coverage which stood at 85.29% in 2015 (with the lowest value of 68% in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and the highest in Lombardy in recent years with 90 , 3%). It was 86.74 in 2014; 90.35% in 2013. "As for the anti-Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccination is the optimal value was not achieved in any region. Condition, this, that does not allow to block the circulation of the virus and, therefore, facilitates the emergence of local epidemics that affect the susceptible population, "reads the Osservasalute Report published by the National Observatory on Health in the Italian Regions.

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Unvaccinated girl, 9, died of measles (5)
Redazione ANSA Rome
28 June 201719:45

(ANSA) - Rome, June 28 - A nine-year-old girl died in a Rome hospital on April 28 from complications from a bout of measles which she had not been vaccinated against, the Bambino Ges? Hospital said Wednesday. It is the second such case in two months after a boy suffering from leukemia, also not vaccinated, died in Monza...