Italy: 2022 Monkeypox

[Mary Wilson]

May 19, 2022,
Updated May 19, 2022, 5:50 PM IST

Reuters

MILAN, May 19 (Reuters) - Italy has diagnosed its first case of the monkeypox infection at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, the hospital said on Thursday ...

... two other suspected cases that had yet to be confirmed.

https://www.reuters.com/business/he...ypox-infection-two-more-suspected-2022-05-19/

 

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Source: https://www.ansa.it/english/news/sc...ree_fdf63d4c-364a-44b6-b096-5f4b1e3ca879.html


Italian monkeypox cases rise to three
Two more cases linked to case zero at Spallanzani
Redazione ANSA ROME
20 May 202212:26

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 20 - Italian monkeypox cases have risen to three, the Lazio regional health authority said Friday.
The men are all being treated at Italy's premier infectious disease hospital, the Spallanzani in Rome, it said.
The latest two cases are linked to case zero, it said.
he first case of monkey smallpox, or monkeypox, has been identified in Italy in a man who returned from a stay in the Canary Islands and presented with smallpox symptoms to Rome's Umberto I Hospital, sources said Thursday...

 

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Source: https://www.ansa.it/english/news/ge...our_96912d13-5edc-4de8-9e06-8bb8ab7ab50c.html

Italian monkeypox cases rise to four
Redazione ANSA ROME
23 May 202211:09


(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 23 - The number of Italian monkeypox cases has risen to four after the South-East Tuscany health authority said a 32-year-old man who returned to Arezzo on May 15 from a holiday in the Canary Islands had the disease.
He is being treated at Arezzo's San Donato hospital.
It is the first case in Tuscany.
Three other men are being treated at Italy's premier infectious disease hospital, the Spallanzani, in Rome.
The first Italian case of monkey smallpox, or monkeypox, also regarded a man who had recently returned from a stay in the Canary Islands...

 

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[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.thelocal.it/20220525/italian-monkeypox-cases-rise-to-seven/

Italian monkeypox cases rise to seven

Five infections have now been confirmed in Rome, as well as one in Tuscany and one in Lombardy, Italian health authorities said.
Published: 25 May 2022 15:42 CEST

The total number Italian monkeypox cases rose to seven on Wednesday as a new case was reported by the Spallanzani hospital for infectious diseases in Rome.

Spallanzani is treating six cases: five found in Lazio and one in Tuscany, while the Sacco Hospital in Milan is treating one patient from the Lombardy region.

“There is no alarm, but the infection surveillance system is at a state of maximum attention,” Lazio’s regional health councillor Alessio D’Amato told the Ansa news agency...

 

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Source: https://www.thelocal.it/20220526/italian-monkeypox-cases-rise-to-seven/

Italian monkeypox cases rise to ten
Monkeypox infections have now been confirmed in four Italian regions, Italian health authorities said on Thursday.
Published: 26 May 2022 15:51 CEST

The total number of Italian monkeypox cases rose to ten on Thursday with the discovery of the first case in the Emilia-Romagna region.

There have now been five cases detected the Lazio region, which are being treated in Rome, plus three in Lombardy, and one each in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna.

READ ALSO: How is Italy dealing with rising monkeypox cases?

“There is no alarm, but the infection surveillance system is at a state of maximum attention,” Lazio’s regional health councillor Alessio D’Amato told the Ansa news agency after the seventh case was reported on Wednesday.

Researchers at Rome’s Spallanzani hospital for infectious diseases said the new cases are thought to be “part of a pan-European cluster” linked to cases in the Canary Islands, Ansa reported...

 

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Source: https://www.inform.kz/en/woman-22-becomes-1st-liguria-monkeypox-case-ansa_a3938144

Woman, 22, becomes 1st Liguria monkeypox case
ANSA 28 May 2022 13:31

ANSA ROME. KAZINFORM A 22-year-old woman who got back from the Canary Islands Monday has become the first case of monkeypox in Liguria.
The woman, who lives at Levante Ligure, is believed to be either the tenth or 11th Italian case of the pox, ANSA reports.
Several cases are linked to the Canary Islands....

 

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Source: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/health...e-to-20-will-increase-further-deputy-minister

Italy's monkeypox cases rise to 20, will increase further - deputy minister
Reuters
Publishing date:
Jun 01, 2022 • 39 minutes ago • 1 minute read •


MILAN — Cases of monkeypox in Italy have risen to 20 and are set to increase further in the coming days, the country’s deputy health minister said on Wednesday.

“We have 20 cases in Italy, 19 are all people who have traveled where there has been a chain of contagion and perhaps – this has not yet been confirmed – only one case occurred as a second contagion,” Pierpaolo Sileri told Rai Radio 1.

“There is an incubation period of a couple of weeks, it is clear that we will have more in the coming days,” he added...

 

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Source: https://wtvbam.com/2022/06/17/italys-monkeypox-cases-rise-to-71-health-ministry-says/

Italy’s monkeypox cases rise to 71, health ministry says
By Syndicated Content
Jun 17, 2022 | 11:34 AM

MILAN (Reuters) – Cases of monkeypox in Italy have risen to 71, the director general of the country’s health ministry Giovanni Rezza said on Friday.

In its previous update on June 9, the Italian health ministry said it had detected 29 cases...

 

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Italian monkeypox cases rise to 740, Lombardy leads
With 318 cases, followed by Lazio and Emilia-Romagna
Redazione ANSA ROME
26 August 202215:33

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 26 - Italian monkeypox cases have risen by 26 to 740 in the last three days, the health ministry said in its latest update Friday.
Some 201 are linked to trips abroad, the ministry said.
Males are almost all the cases, 730, with just 10 women infected.
The average age of cases is 37.
There have been no deaths from the pox in Italy, but an Italian tourist has died in Cuba, the first case on the Caribbean island.
Among Italy's regions, the highest number of cases is Lombardy with 318, the ministry said.
It is followed by Lazio with 136, Emilia Romagna (75), and Veneto (50).
Only Basilicata, Calabria, Molise, Umbria and Val d'Aosta have reported no cases.
The Italian embassy in Havana is assisting the family of the Italian who died of monkeypox on the island.
He was named as Germano Mancini, 50, commander of a Carabinieri barracks at Scorze' near Venice, and originally from Pescara in Abruzzo.
Mancini had been on Cuba since August 15 and was taken ill three days later...