Italy - Media: Campania: suspected case of avian flu hospitalized in ICU - back from South America - H1N1 confirmed

[tetano]

After the cases of meningitis in Naples the bird arrives at Castel Volturno. Yesterday, in fact, a patient arrived in the emergency room and immediately realized that he was facing an infection with bird flu, H5N1 virus. This is a young Italian, living in Mondragone, who had just returned from a trip abroad, to South America, where he had spent the Christmas holidays. Immediately the man was placed in a pharmacological coma and hospitalized in the resuscitation department of the Pineta Grande clinic in Castel Volturno.
Panic among the patients since it was necessary the temporary closure of the emergency room to allow the appropriate prophylaxis operations.

https://www.ottopagine.it/ce/cronaca...soccorso.shtml

[sharon sanders]

This article says possible H7N9....



Fear of bird flu: the first aid of the Pineta Grande is closed

The suspected case is a 30-year-old patient with severe contractions and a high fever
By Alessandra Chianese
- 7 January 2019



CASTEL VOLTURNO - Panic moments at the Pineta Grande clinic located in Castelvolturno: due to a suspected case of bird flu, the emergency room was ready to close. The fear began yesterday when a 30-year-old man, residing in Mondragone, potentially affected by the infectious H7N9 virus, showed up at the facility, presenting strong contractions and very high flu.
Security protocols against the virus were immediately activated. Patients hospitalized in white or yellow code were transferred to other facilities and transfers to the Pineta Grande clinic were promptly blocked. The conditions of the 30 year old are currently serious. Relatives of the patient, doctors, nurses and anyone who came in contact with him were invited to report to the Cotugno Hospital in Naples, in order to verify any contagion. The results of the tests carried out on the patient should be known by tonight to see whether or not he was infected with the bird flu. This morning a reclamation was carried out in the emergency room.

http://www.ilmeridianonews.it/2019/0...pineta-grande/

[sharon sanders]

After the cases of meningitis in Naples the bird arrives at Castel Volturno. Yesterday, in fact, a patient arrived in the emergency room and immediately realized that he was facing an infection with bird flu, H5N1 virus. This is a young Italian, living in Mondragone, who had just returned from a trip abroad, to South America, where he had spent the Christmas holidays. Immediately the man was placed in a pharmacological coma and hospitalized in the resuscitation department of the Pineta Grande clinic in Castel Volturno.
Panic among the patients since it was necessary the temporary closure of the emergency room to allow the appropriate prophylaxis operations.

https://www.ottopagine.it/ce/cronaca...soccorso.shtml

Here is an article about the referenced meningitis panic in recent days. A doctor died:

Naples, a new case of meningitis at the Ospedale del Mare

A health worker informed users that waiting times for the emergency room would be longer, due to the transfer of an infected patient, and people ran away

Panic, the last night, was created in the emergency room of the Hospital of the Sea of Naples, when a patient suffering from meningitis arrived in the Neapolitan hospital .

Users immediately became alarmed and did not hide their concern about the arrival of the patient. At the entrance of the hospital in Ponticelli it was just past midnight, but there was a large number of people who, as soon as they learned that the man in the emergency room was suffering from meningitis began to spread the word.
The fear grew when a health worker informed the users that waiting times for the emergency room would be longer, due to the transfer of a patient. "They warned us to leave, because they had to bring out a patient with a serious infectious disease," say some people who were waiting outside the Sea Hospital.
The nurse's invitation sparked chaos. The case of the 40-year-old Neapolitan doctor who died after a few hours from hospitalization following a fulminant meningitis was too recent. The users believed that soon the hospital would be evacuated and ran away leaving the first aid entrance empty.

http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cronac...e-1624813.html

[Pathfinder]

Translation Google

No bird flu alarms in Campania

January 7, 2019 Of AM

There is, in fact, the H5N1 virus, but a more modest H1N1 that is covered also adopted in the normal vaccination, this year, all over the national territory.

The patient originally from Mondragone, hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Pineta Grande Clinic in Castel Volturno, has not contracted the most feared infection but a more "banal" flu syndrome that, in fact, resizes the case to a more reasonable "Seasonal disturbance".

In short, despite the persistence of coincident symptoms that led in the "avian" direction, it was a mistake of assessment of the specialists of the well-known nursing home that should, however, be welcomed, because a sign of professional seriousness that in some cases is must. In other words, it is better to "sin" due to excess of prudence than to defect itself. In particular when there are infectious diseases that have claimed numerous victims all over the world.

The "coincident symptoms" did not hold up, in fact, at the laboratory tests carried out in the Cotugno hospital in Naples and, what was "entered by Pope came out of a cardinal": the H5N1 turned out to be a more modest H1N1.

"As Region, we immediately started up and started a constant monitoring to keep the situation under control - confirms Antonio Postiglione, director general of health protection for the Campania Region - because certain warnings should never be taken lightly. Today everything has returned and, even if we were ready to face a possible emergency, fortunately there was no need. The laboratory analyzes, in fact, have denied the most severe hypothesis ".

https://www.tuttosanita.com/nessun-allarme-aviaria-in-campania/