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Italy: Trento, a 4 year old girl killed by autochthonous malaria

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tetano

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Killed four years after malaria. It happened in Trento. The victim is Sofia Zago, the young man died in the night between Sunday and Monday at the hospital in Brescia where he had been relocated. Scientists and experts are looking for a possible explanation. In fact, in recent weeks, the family had not traveled abroad or in countries at risk but had been on vacation in Bibione, Veneto. But the focus is also on a hospitalization that the little girl had in the pediatric ward of Santa Chiara Hospital in Trento after Ferragosto, on the same days as two little boys who had contracted malaria in Africa, but at the moment not there is still a certain link.

http://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/20...ria-174655609/?ref=RHPPLF-BH-I0-C8-P1-S1.8-T1
 
Rare malaria death of girl in northern Italy puzzles doctors


sept 5, 2017

A four-year-old Italian girl has died of cerebral malaria in northern Italy, a region free of the disease, in what doctors see as a very mysterious case.

Sofia Zago died in Brescia on Sunday night, after being rushed to hospital with a high fever on Saturday.

Italy is free of the Anopheles mosquito that carries cerebral malaria, the deadliest form of the blood disease. But after a scorching August, some fear that it might have reached Italy.

A flight could have brought it in.

Sofia had been on holiday with her parents at Bibione, an Adriatic resort near Venice.

"It's the first time in my 30-year career that I've seen a case of malaria originating in Trentino," said Dr Claudio Paternoster, an infectious diseases specialist at Trento's Santa Chiara Hospital.

Since the 1950s, Italy has not had a malaria problem because mosquito-infested marshes were drained.
Trento, where the girl's malaria was diagnosed on Saturday, lies in the foothills of the Alps.

There is speculation that Sofia might have caught malaria from one of two children treated for it at the Trento hospital after 15 August. They had caught it in Africa, and recovered. Sofia had had treatment there for child diabetes and there was a break before her emergency readmission to the hospital at the weekend. A Trentino health official, Paolo Bordon, said Sofia had not been in the same ward as the other two children. Sofia had not had a blood transfusion, he added, stressing that the treatments for malaria and diabetes were utterly different.
 
[h=1]Killed by malaria at 4 years. Lorenzin: "Maybe ill contracted in the hospital in Trento"[/h]
The small girl on August 13 had a diabetes overheard while on vacation in Bibione and had been treated in the hospitals of Portogruaro, immediately, and in Trento, from 16 to 21 August. Then a pharyngitis on August 31, with antibiotics prescribed for first aid in Trento, finally malaria. Discovered in Trento, with a transfer to Hezbollah in Brescia Civilians. It was Paolo Bordon, general manager of the Apss (Provincial Health Service) in Trentino, to rethink the clinical history of the child. "On August 21st - explained - last day of diabetes hospitalization, a family of Burkina Faso arrived in a hospital in Trento, returning from a trip to the country of origin, with two children with malaria, who are but they were in different rooms. "
"It is September 2, he says, that the baby has come to first aid in Trento without consciousness." Resuscitation and pediatrics suspected that it was epilepsy, but the findings of the case were negative. "A hemorrhoid, however, insinuated the suspect of malaria and a supplement of the survey found the presence of Plasmodium falciparum, a malaria of the most aggressive. It was then immediately contacted by the hospital in Brescia, the reference for tropical diseases, and was transferred on Saturday in the hosiery under conditions very serious. Yesterday at 12:15 died.
In the hospital in Trento - added the general manager - we have put special traps for mosquitoing yesterday afternoon, which will be removed this afternoon, while all the children have been transferred and the disinfestation of the entire department is underway, "said Bordon. "It remains to be said - that the little one died and the two malaria sufferers were in different rooms, the treatments were all done with disposable material and there were no transfusions. Malaria is not transmissible from man to man and no other patient has had any symptoms related to malaria. "

"The latency period," concluded Bordon, "could make him think he had contracted him first, then, of course, the presence of two sick babies here makes him unsuspecting. The point is that there should be some anophyse mosquitoes, maybe in luggage. Our veterinarians, questioned, say that another mosquito can not become a carrier, even if he has a sick spot. "

http://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/20...ria-174655609/?ref=RHPPLF-BH-I0-C8-P2-S1.8-T1
 
[h=1]Malaria: "There is only one parasite for the three children cared for in Trento"[/h]
THE INQUIRIES are entrusted to the Carabinieri of the Nas of Trento. And in the meantime Trento comes from news of particular importance. The parasite that caused malaria to the baby is the same as having caused the two children to return from Burkina Faso and who had been admitted to pediatrics in Trento on the same days as the baby. The news was announced yesterday by Nunzia Di Palma, director of the Pediatric Unit of the Trento Hospital.

http://www.bresciaoggi.it/territori...ita-per-i-tre-bimbi-curati-a-trento-1.5943130
 
[h=1]Dead malaria child: "Syringe infected the most plausible case would be a huge accident"[/h]
It is almost fantasy science scenarios those who paint in an attempt to explain how malaria can be contracted in the hospital, as happened to little Sofia. "Without using science fiction," Massimo Galli, an infectologist at the University of Milan and vice president of the Italian Infectious Diseases Society, said at least to be unlikely, almost to the limit of the impossible. " In fact, all the experts agree that Trento is really exceptional.

http://www.corriere.it/cronache/17_...le-984afc18-9340-11e7-a8ea-58c09844946a.shtml
 
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