Italy: 878 pneumonia cases in Brescia province, legionella bacterium in the cooling towers

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?Pneumonia epidemic: cases rise to 250, boy nearing death

?Up to 250 cases of pneumonia recorded from 2 to 9 September in about twenty Brescia municipalities. The pathogen has not yet been identified, but, according to regional councilor Giulio Gallera, it is certainly bacterial pneumonia "because there are increasing cases of legionella, at least 12 confirmed ones". Meanwhile, a 29-year-old from Ro? Volciano suffering from pneumonia was admitted to the hospital in San Gerardo di Monza. It is located in the intensive care unit, attached to the machine for extracorporeal circulation, but for the Ats it would not be a case related to the epidemic in the Lower "as resident in a different area", although the spread seems now having passed the municipalities of the "red zone".


?On the other hand, at the Civile di Brescia two people aged 57 and 58 were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, transferred from the Montichiari hospital after their condition worsened.?
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Pneumonia in Brescia, air investigations are evaluated

On the cases of pneumonia recorded in Brescia, "we are doing everything that can be done, either by investigating the sampling made to understand if the vector is water, or by interrogating patients to see if there is an element that unite and identify the source, but we also work in other directions. "We do not want to leave anything to chance". This was stated by the Regional Councilor for Welfare, Giulio Gallera, on the sidelines of the presentation of the project for the new San Raffaele building. To those who asked him if they are also considering checks in the air, the commissioner replied: "Yes, even on the air we are starting to think about doing something". "We are working in all directions in harmony with the most experts and with the Istituto Superiore di Sanit? - added Gallera - We want to give a message of reassurance to the population.
We count in a short time to be able to give definitive messages. "At the moment the hypothesis that the legionella is the cause of the contagion" can not be said to be excluded, or that this bacterium is certainly the triggering factor ". the number of infected persons confirmed the Councilor that they are still in 138 cases of access to the Emergency Department, of which 124 are hospitalized.

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Pneumonia in Brescia: the Prosecution opens an investigation. The cases go up to 148

The Brescia Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into the cases of pneumonia that have been occurring for days in the Lower Bresciana Orientale. It is the Carabinieri del Nas who collects data on infections and is in contact with the top management of Ats. The number of cases of people who showed up in the emergency room in the last few hours has increased by reaching 148.

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Cases of pneumonia, virologist: the legionella bacterium is the main suspect

cases of pneumonia recorded in Bresciano, with 138 accesses in the emergency room, "have a number one suspect and is the bacterium of the legionella, although it will take some more time to have certain elements. It's like doing a police investigation by fitting all the pieces of a mosaic of clues: analysis of the water samples, controls and interviews on the sick subjects and checking what they have in common. It is possible that other episodes of the past can also be traced back to Legionella, but the link has never been found ": Fabrizio Pregliasco, a virologist at the University of Milan, explained this to Adnkronos Salute.



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Pneumonia in Bresciano, dying of ducks in the Fossa Magna canal

Montichiari, 10 September 2018 - Slaughter of ducks in a few days in the Fossa Magna of Carpenedolo, country epicenter of numerous cases of pneumonia that also led to the death of two people, a man of 84 years of Carpenedolo and a woman of 68 Calvisano. Altogether there are 138 accesses to the emergency rooms of the hospitals of Montichiari, Manerbio, Desenzano Del Garda, Gavardo, Asola and Castiglione delle Stiviere and Mantova. It is premature to hypothesize a link between the death of anatids and the anomalous wave of respiratory infections. But of course, in a context of very high health alert, the Ats wants to shed light. Yesterday morning, around 10.30, the staff of the veterinary department took the carcasses of the 25 birds that will now be subjected to an autopsy examination at the Zooprofilattico institute.

Poisoning or more likely avian influenza causes ended under the lens of health authorities. If, however, there were no findings to these hypotheses, the investigations will be investigated to verify precisely if there are links between the deaths of the ducks and the epidemic of pneumonia. The node to be dissolved is not so much the contagion practically impossible, given the bacterial nature of the infection, but how much to understand if the animals have contracted a form of pathology from the water considered a potential carrier of the germ.

https://www.ilgiorno.it/brescia/cronaca/polmonite-strage-anatre-1.4161747

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Brescia, 138 cases of pneumonia: hypothesis of a bacterium in the water.

The numbers are those of an epidemic. The number of cases of pneumonia in the lower part of eastern Brescia has exceeded 130, in particular in the municipalities of Carpenedolo, Montichiari, Calvisano, Visano, Acquafredda and Remedello. One hundred twenty-one accesses registered in the emergency room, in 107 were admitted. Most of these are over 60s, from already problematic health conditions. The hospital of Montichiari was particularly assaulted, with the percentage of consultations for pneumonia passed from 1 to 80 percent. And investigations were made on the deaths of an 85 year-old from Carpenedolo and a 69-year-old from Mezzane di Calvisano, to assess whether the cause was in any way linked to the epidemic. Autopsies that, according to the Councilor for Health Giulio Gallera, gave a negative result: "The two deaths of Brescia would not seem to be related to pneumonia cases," he said. To then add: "We work at 360 degrees to identify the cause of this phenomenon. To date, there are 138 cases, of which only two are legionella ".
The situation, in fact, immediately brought to mind the legionella emergency that broke out in July in Bresso, a municipality in the Milan hinterland, with 52 confirmed cases and 4 deaths. As in that case, it is hypothesized that the cause of the epidemic is a bacterium present in the water. Yesterday afternoon, in Brescia, a summit was held between Ats, the Lombard health protection agency, and the aqueduct managers in the lower Brescia area. The supervisory staff of the Department of Hygiene and Health Prevention and of the Public Health Laboratory of Ats Brescia is engaged in the verification of the water network of the municipalities concerned. "Hygiene technicians are carrying out sampling of drinking water, while the laboratory has ongoing specific analyzes whose outcomes will be available in the coming days," said the regional councilor Gallera.

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Pneumonia in Brescia, findings on two deaths


Investigations were made on the deaths of an 85 year-old from Carpenedolo and a 69-year-old from Mezzane di Calvisano, in Brescia, to assess whether the deaths are related to the cases of pneumonia they are affecting the southern eastern Brescia province.

Only accesses to the emergency room of the hospitals in the area were 121, but the cases of pneumonia exceed 150. One hundred and twenty-one patients all concentrated in the Lower Brescia and in some countries bordering the high Mantovano, scattered between the towns of Calvisano, Carpenedolo , Montichiari, Acquafredda, Desenzano and Gavardo. General practitioners, family paediatricians and continuity nursing physicians (ex-doctor) are paying particular attention to cases of patients presenting with respiratory symptoms.

Ats of Brescia is carrying out the analysis of the aqueducts because it is hypothesized that the epidemic is due to a bacterium present in the water. Doctors and technicians are trying to understand if there is a correlation between all these cases. If there is a single source of contagion. And if, given the non-traditional symptomatology, it is in the presence of community pneumonia, ie taken within the home and caused by the legionella bacteria. If you are dealing with legionella pneumonia you can not yet say, what is certain is that this bacterium has infected two of the patients, since yesterday hospitalized in intensive care hospital in Brescia, their conditions have worsened and the doctors have ordered the transfer from the infectious ward to the intensive care unit.


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