Caso umano di variante umana del morbo di Creutzfeldt-Jacob in Italia, commento di ProMedMail.org
Caso umano di variante umana del morbo di Creutzfeldt-Jacob in Italia, commento di ProMedMail.org
Caso umano di variante umana del morbo di Creutzfeldt-Jacob in Italia, commento di ProMedMail.org
[Fonte: ProMedMail.org, testo completo originale (
LINK). Tradotto dal Mod.(IOH), adattato.]
Di seguito presento il commento fatto dal moderatore di ProMedMail.org, Craig Pringle (CP), sul probabile caso di variante umana della malattia di Creutzfeldt Jacob scoperto alcuni giorni fa a Livorno. Accanto alla mia parziale traduzione lascio il testo originale in Inglese per chi volesse eseguirla da se. Il testo completo ? disponibile seguendo il link indicato sopra.
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''In precedenza il Ministero della Salute italiano in data 23 ottobre 2009 aveva dato notizia di un caso 'probabile' di variante umana del morbo di Creutzfeldt-Jacob (vCJD), la variante nell'uomo del morbo della 'mucca pazza' (vedere anche l'archivio ProMed, titolo '"vCJD - Italy: susp.
20091024.3671"'). Si presume che la donna di 42 anni di et? descritta dalle fonte di stampa (qui riprodotte) sia la stessa a cui faceva riferimento il comunicato ministeriale. Lo stesso menzionava in quell'occasione che la paziente poteva essere stata infettata nel periodo precedente la messa al bando in Italia dei mangimi contenenti farine animali per l'alimentazione bovina, avvenuto nel dicembre 2000.
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[Previously the Italian Health Ministry on Fri 23 Oct 2009 reported a "likely" case of [variant] Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease (see ProMED-mail report archived as: "vCJD - Italy: susp.
20091024.3671"). It is presumed that the 42 year old woman described in the above 2 reports is this previously suspected case. The Ministry of Health stated at that time that it believed that this suspected case had been infected before the use of animal and bone meal in animal feed was banned in Italy December 2000.
The interactive HealthMap/ProMED map for Italy is available at <
http://healthmap.org/r/00uE> - Mod.CP]
[6] Italy: 2nd case confirmed
Date: Sun 25 Jul 2010
Source: NowItaly.com [edited]
http://www.nowitaly.com/giornale/news_eng/97329/second-italian-case-human-disease.htm
Another Italian case of human "mad cow" disease
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Italy has got its 2nd case of the human variant of mad cow disease, a Livorno hospice reported Wednesday [21 Jul 2010]. The 42 year old woman from Livorno was reported to be in the final stages of her battle against variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of the fatal brain-wasting illness (CJD). It is not known how the woman contracted the disease. Italy's 1st case, a Sicilian woman, died in 2003 after struggling with vCJD for about a year. The variant [form] of CJD, for which there is no known cure, is believed to be caused by eating meat infected with mad cow disease or BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
Since variant CJD was 1st reported in 1996, a total of 217 patients from 11 countries have been identified [for full details see <
http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/vcjdworld.htm>}. Variant CJD cases have been reported from the following countries: 170 from the United Kingdom, 25 from France, 5 from Spain, 4 from Ireland, 3 from the United States, 3 in the Netherlands, 22 in Portugal and Italy, and one each from Canada, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. 2 of the 3 US cases, 2 of the 4 cases from Ireland and the single cases from Canada and Japan were likely exposed to the BSE agent while residing in the United Kingdom. One of the 25 French cases may also have been infected in the United Kingdom.
There has never been a case of vCJD that did not have a history of exposure within a country where the cattle disease was occurring. In 3 cases, each reported in the United Kingdom, contamination is thought to have come through receipt of blood from an asymptomatic, infected donor.
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