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A 19-year-old boy from Gesico (Cagliari) is hospitalized in serious condition in the Reanimation ward of the Policlinico di Monserrato with fever and pain caused by a type B meningitis, the same that caused the death three days ago of the twenty year old Giovanni Mandas , whose funeral was celebrated yesterday.
There is an outbreak of meningitis in Cagliari. This was confirmed by journalists Giorgio Carlo Steri, head of the Hygiene and Public Health Department of the Department of Prevention of the Asset Assl of Cagliari after the last two cases, one of which was fatal. "It is the second case of invasive bacterial disease so it can be said that there was an outbreak - explains the director - certainly not an epidemic, we are within the expected cases.The last two occurred in a limited period of time and in the same place ".
Article of January 10th
[h=1]Meningitis: one died and three hospitalized in Sardinia in a few days[/h]
A 19 year old boy died and three hospitalized for meningitis in Sardinia in a few days. The victim is Luca Pisano, from Tortol?. The student of the last year of the scientific high school had been hospitalized in the evening of Sunday, January 7 in serious condition at the hospital in Lanusei. Shortly after 8pm Tuesday he died of the type B bacterium, considered one of the most aggressive strains. The diagnosis arrived a few hours later.
The one in Lanusei was the fourth case of meningitis in Sardinia within a few days: first there was the shelter of a student in Cagliari, then those of an old man and his band in Nuoro. Finally, the most serious case that led to the death of a young man. A case of meningitis also in Graniti, in the province of Messina: hit a 17-year-old boy who remained in a coma for five days.
[h=1]Meningitis, from December nine cases and two deaths[/h] Nine cases of meningitis have been registered in Sardinia from December 22, 2017 to today: nine cases that counted two deaths, one in Tortol? and the other in Cagliari. And in the capital the outbreak was identified, but Giorgio Carlo Steri, head of the Hygiene and Public Health sector in the territorial Assl, has urged caution to reassure that there are no margins to talk about emergencies (read here). The first case of meningitis, in order of time, was that of a 19 year old from Cagliari admitted to the Holy Trinity three days before Christmas and discharged after treatment a few days later. On January 5th, again in the capital, another 19 year old, of Senorb?, also resigned a few days later. Almost at the same time a 50-year-old disabled person and his caregiver, a 43-year-old Romanian woman, are admitted to the San Francesco di Nuoro. Doctors can save both their lives. http://www.rsi-network.com/news/201...ve-casi-e-due-morti-il-medico-non-e-epidemia/
[h=1]Cagliari, meningitis panic: hundreds of boys lined up in the clinic of the Assl[/h]
The Assl managers have declared the presence of an outbreak in the area of Cagliari, although we can not speak of an epidemic. The penultimate case, in chronological order, concerns a boy, always 20 years old, of Lanusei who was admitted to the infectious diseases department of the Santissima Annunziata of Cagliari with a meningococcal infection, his condition fortunately has been gradually improved, until to total remission. These, in fact, would have attended the same places and to confirm it is the same Steri. "It is necessary to encourage the exchange of air in the rooms ten minutes every hour when it is possible and to check the cleaning of the ventilation systems".
[h=1]Meningitis: 2 other suspected cases in Cagliari[/h] 40 year old woman and 18 years old admitted to the Brotzu and SS. Trinity
It is meningitis type B, the same strain of that found in the 19 year old Gesico in treatment at the Policlinico di Monserrato, the one that hit the young man of 21 years currently hospitalized in the infectious disease department of the Santissima Trinit? hospital in Cagliari. "It's serious and the prognosis is reserved - they say from Ats-Assl Cagliari - It's a meningococcal septicemia.
The Hygiene and Public Health Service has already started all the procedures foreseen by the case. "It remains to be ascertained, however, whether the 40-year-old woman admitted to the Brotzu Reanimation Department is actually affected by meningitis. At the beginning of 2018 two deaths and six cases have already occurred in Cagliari: the doctors have ascertained the presence of an outbreak in Cagliari but explain that this is not an epidemic.
[h=1]Meningitis in Cagliari, confirmed a new case: serious boy of 21 years[/h] It is meningitis B, the same strain of that found in the 19 year old Gesico in care at the Policlinico di Monserrato, the one found on the 21 year old (not 18 as initially learned) currently hospitalized in the infectious diseases department of the Santissima Trinit? hospital in Cagliari. "It is serious and the prognosis is reserved - they say from the Assert Cagliari that specifies -. It is a meningococcal septicemia. The Hygiene and Public Health Service has already started all the procedures foreseen by the case ".It remains to be ascertained whether the 40-year-old woman admitted to the Brotzu Reanimation Department is actually affected by meningitis. Analyzes are awaited. http://www.sardiniapost.it/cronaca/meningite-cagliari-confermato-un-caso-un-ragazzo-21-anni/
[h=1]Meningitis, no epidemic. Arru "Attention is maximum, situation under control"[/h] Cagliari, March 27, 2018 - There is no epidemic of meningitis, there are eight cases recorded from December to today and over a thousand people vaccinated by the Assl of Cagliari in the last week, family members and people who have had close contact with patients . This was reiterated this morning, during a press conference, by the Councilor of Health, Luigi Arru, together with the Director General of the Department, Giuseppe Sechi, the head of the Health Promotion Service, Federico Argiolas, the director of the Assl of Cagliari, Luigi Minerba, Paolo Castiglia, epidemiologist of the University of Sassari, Giorgio Steri and Silvana Tilocca, of the Department of Public Hygiene of Assl 8. http://www.regione.sardegna.it/j/v/2568?s=361756&v=2&c=392&t=1
