Sardinia - Italy: 4 severe cases of influenza H1N1 in Olbia

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"In our territory were recorded 4 cases of flu-like syndrome serious, referring to H1N1: this is two children, aged 3 and 6 years old, suffering from interstitial pneumonitis, hospitalized in the Department of Pediatrics at the hospital John Paul II in Olbia for acute respiratory failure", Explains the director of the Department of hygiene and public health the Asl of Olbia, Tonino Saba. "A man of 64 years was hospitalized in Resuscitation to Olbia for pneumonia with serious acute respiratory insufficiency and distress (ARDS) with assisted breathing, and a second man, aged 68, However, was hospitalized in Sassari at the intensive therapy for pneumonia with serious acute respiratory failure (SARI) and distress (ARDS) and needed assistance with extracorporeal breathing. These subjects had not made the seasonal flu vaccine and therefore were not protected by the vaccine that provides immunity against the virus H1N1 ", explains Saba. Patients at the time are still in hospital, but would decline danger of life.

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