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  • #61
    An 8 year old child was struck by meningitis C in Tuscany type. Residing in Collesalvetti, in the province of Livorno, it was admitted to the hospital Meyer. The Collesalvetti mayor announces on Facebook closure of all schools of Pond (childhood, elementary and middle). The child was hospitalized first in Pisa, then transferred to the Meyer of Florence. His condition would not be serious. have been put in place all necessary measures for prophylaxis.

    Il sindaco di Collesalvetti (Livorno) annuncia su Facebook la chiusura di tutte le scuole di Stagno (infanzia, elementare e media). Il bimbo dapprima è stato ricoverato a Pisa, poi trasferito al Meyer di Firenze. Le sue condizioni non sarebbero gravi

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    • #62
      Source: http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gene...503aa5b78.html

      Boy with meningitis C in Florence
      Two meningitis deaths in Tuscany this week
      23 November 201610:22

      (ANSA) - Florence, November 23 - An eight-year-old boy from Livorno is in serious condition at Florence's Meyer pediatric hospital after contracting meningitis C.
      The boy was reportedly vaccinated in 2009 against meningitis C, which is highly contagious...

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      • #63
        Meningitis, new case in Tuscany: severe a 4 year old.

        New case of meningitis in Tuscany. A four year old child, who had been vaccinated in 2013, was hospitalized in serious condition in the hospital's pediatric intensive care unit Meyer of Florence (photo). The small attending nursery school in Cascina, in Pisano, and has already been started prophylaxis for all the people who were more or less in contact with lui.L'ospedale pediatric Meyer announced that it has been confirmed by the immunology lab the diagnosis of sepsis, meningitis type C. her condition, says the Meyer notes, are serious and doctors have reserved prognosis. The child was hospitalized at first to the hospital Cisanello of Pisa. With the worsening of the situation health have ordered the immediate transfer by helicopter emergency pediatric hospital Meyer

        “Nelle vaccinazioni possono esserci i cosiddetti casi di ‘vaccine failure‘, ovvero di mancata risposta al vaccino”. Come ha detto la pediatra e infettivologa Susanna Esposito, presidente dell’Associazione mondiale per le malattie infettive e i disordini immunologici (Wadid), potrebbe essere questa una spiegazione del nuovo caso di meningite in Toscana. Un bambino di quattro anni, che era stato …

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        • #64
          Source: http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gene...f563376df.html

          28 Tuscany meningitis cases in 2016
          Redazione ANSA Florence
          28 December 201614:19

          (ANSA) - Florence, December 28 - As many as 59 cases of meningitis C have been registered in Tuscany from 2015 to today, authorities said Wednesday after a Rome elementary-school teacher became the latest victim of the virus: 31 last year and 28 this...

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          • #65
            22-month-old baby killed by meningitis in Lucca

            Meningitis makes its first tiny victim to Lucca. The disease has struck down the short life of just 22 month old child, arrived yesterday evening (December 28) at the hospital emergency room San Luca di Lucca, already in critical condition for a form of meningococcal sepsis, and then died the night after being transferred to the emergency Meyer of Florence (Read). Family members and people who have come in contact with the child's parents Lucca have already undergone the prophylactic ASL, which has been activated with the appropriate procedures after a first feedback on meningitis. Other tests have since been willing to understand what form of the disease has struck the little less than two years.

            di Roberto SalottiLa meningite fa la sua prima piccolissima vittima a Lucca. La malattia ha stroncato la breve vita di un bambino di appena 22 mesi,

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            • #66
              New case of meningitis C in Tuscany. A child of 22 months of Porcari, in the province of Lucca, died last night at the pediatric hospital Meyer in Florence due to meningococcal meningitis C. The child was not vaccinated. He was transferred by ambulance from the hospital in Lucca at around 21 last night. His condition was very serious. He tried to revive him, to no avail.




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              • #67
                Tuscany: still a serious case of meningitis, a 20 year old girl in Prato

                FLORENCE - Another case of meningitis in Tuscany. To be hit this time it's a girl of 20 years of Prato was admitted in the late evening of 31 December in the hospital's intensive care unit in serious condition. The analyzes performed in hospital laboratories Meyer of Florence confirmed the diagnosis showing a type C meningococcal sepsis, the most fearsome

                E' stata ricoverata la sera del 31 dicembre nel reparto di terapia intensiva. È l'ottavo caso accaduto nel 2016 del ceppo C. Colpiti da meningococco B un uomo di 55 anni di Impruneta (Firenze) e una donna peruviana di Chiavari. Scatta la profilassi

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                • #68
                  Meningitis in Livorno: 54, hospitalized in serious condition

                  And 'hospitalized in Livorno, in the department of the city hospital infectious disease, a 54 year old man suffering from meningococcal meningitis C. of conditions, reports a note of Local Health Tuscany Northwest, "are serious and critical condition." "The patient - explains a note of ASL - was presented to the emergency room and from there they started the investigation that led to the definition of the diagnosis. The checks carried out by the Department of Hygiene and Public Health, in collaboration with Human relatives, have identified only in the circle of family members the opportunity to perform antibiotic prophylaxis which, remember, it is only provided in the case of close and prolonged contact ".



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                  • #69
                    New case of meningitis in Tuscany

                    New case of meningitis in Tuscany. A 40 year old man living in San Marcello Pistoiese is hospitalized from late yesterday evening, in the Department of Intensive Care Hospital San Jacopo. Arrived to the emergency room, the patient's symptoms have been aroused in health suspicion of bacterial meningitis. "They were immediately taken to diagnostic tests and appropriate treatment administered. Tests have confirmed the meningococcal C" diagnosis of meningitis reported in a statement the company USL Tuscany Center. The patient is still on the danger list, but his condition at the time, are stable. The patient had undergone vaccination Meningococcal C in February 2016.

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                    • #70
                      Meningitis: new case in Pisa, hit 27 year old girl

                      (AGI) - Pisa, March 18 - A new case of meningococcal type C meningitis in a girl of Cascina, in the province of Pisa than 27 years, not vaccinated. After the? Access to the emergency room of Pontedera, where was carried out the first diagnosis was transferred to the infectious diseases department of Livorno, his condition is good. The first symptoms have appeared yesterday, Friday 17 March. Epidemiological investigation carried out by the health care of? Public hygiene of ASL result that the woman, in the ten days preceding the onset of symptoms, he attended several local. The Office of Public Hygiene clinics in Gerace Gallery will conduct a special opening today and tomorrow.

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                      • #71
                        New case of C meningitis hospitalized teacher

                        LIVORNO. A new case of meningitis. On the morning of Tuesday, April 18, from Livorno a woman was admitted to hospital in Livorno and doctors, after all the tests, she was diagnosed meningococcal meningitis type C. The 34 year-old, who was not vaccinated and works as a teacher in kindergarten Calambrone of La Maddalena, located in the department of infectious diseases in stable condition.




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                        • #72
                          Meningitis: New C case in Florence, a 25 year old

                          He was hospitalized yesterday afternoon in the intensive care unit of Careggi Hospital, a 25-year-old, resident in Florence, who had been diagnosed with meningococco type C infection this morning. The young man who was not vaccinated was in private prognosis but responding to therapies. The functional hygiene and public health unit of the Florentine area immediately activated the procedures for the prophylaxis of close contacts that were solely in the family and workplace. From the beginning of 2017 to today is the third case of meningococcal C nell 'Company Usl Tuscany center.

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                          • #73
                            Meningitis C in an old woman

                            Florence, October 22, 2017 - A 79-year-old Scarperia woman, who was hospitalized last Thursday at the Borgo San Lorenzo hospital for a trauma, was positive for meningococcal infection C. She was not vaccinated. Confirmation of the disease came from laboratory of the Careggi Hospitals Company. The epidemiological inquiry has already been carried out by the Department of Prevention of the USL Tc Company in the Florentine area, and prophylaxis is in place for contacts and cohabitants who had close and close contacts in the seven days prior to the onset of the disease with the case.



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                            • #74
                              43-year-old woman hospitalized in Livorno for meningitis C

                              LIVORNO. A 43-year-old woman is hospitalized in Livorno hospital resuscitation department with diagnosis of meningococcal sepsis of type C meningitis. It is the second Tuscan case in a day, as always on Sunday 22nd October in this l 'Usl Toscana centro, has announced the positivity of a 79-year-old woman admitted to Borgo San Lorenzo, in the province of Florence.

                              Si era presentata al pronto soccorso con febbre alta e dolori alla nuca. Non era vaccinata: è grave, ma stabile. L'Usl sta valutando se eseguire la profilassi


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                              • #75
                                56-year-old woman in Lucca diagnosed with meningitis C

                                Lucca, 21st December 2017 - The USL Toscana northwest company announces that a 56-year-old woman, residing in the municipality of Capannori, is admitted to the "San Luca" hospital in Lucca diagnosed with type C meningitis. The woman, currently in intensive care at "San Luca" with a reserved prognosis, is in serious but stable condition.
                                The health and public health service of the USL Toscana northwest has already carried out all the checks and the necessary prophylaxis actions on the family and close contacts of the woman.



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