Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

ITALY: PADUA EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT NURSE FALLS ILL WITH SWINE FLU (July 23, 2009)

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • ITALY: PADUA EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT NURSE FALLS ILL WITH SWINE FLU (July 23, 2009)

    Source: il Mattino di Padova, print edition, July 23, 2009, page 18, http://www.mattinopadova.it - e-mail: cronaca@mattinopadova.it - phone: +390498043411 - Edited and translated/adapted by the Moderator (IOH).


    An Emergency Department Padua Hospital nurse has been infected by influenza H1N1 2009 virus, and subsequently she has transmitted to her son. This is the first confirmed case of an hospital worker in Padua infected during his service.

    The most likely source of the contagion was a Sri Lankan maid, infected during her travel from Sri Lanka via Dubai. The woman seek hospital care on July 11. During her visit at Padua ER, the nurse likely caught the virus.

    The nurse was tested positive for virus H1N1 2009 after developing fever and respiratory symptoms.

    After the test results reached the ER department, a new protocol has been put in operation: all patients with fever are put in a isolated waiting room and provided with masks.

    All the nurse colleagues are now under surveillance for flu symptoms and they will be put under treatment with antivirals if should develop influenza-like illness.

    It is five years that health care workers dispatched on Padua ER call for a special indemnization for infectious diseases exposures, but until now they have been refused by authorities.

    The infected nurse and her son are quarantined at home.

    Meanwhile, another case of H1N1 2009 has been confirmed by Padua Microbiology and Virology laboratory. Until now, a total of 26 cases have been confirmed. None was in serious conditions.

    (IOH)
Working...
X