Gert van der Hoek
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OPEN INQUIRY INTO THE DEATH OF THE CHILD 11 YEARS OF POMPEII
Influenza A: two new victims in Naples
A woman has died in hospital and another Cotugno Hospital Cardarelli
Even a woman who died in Naples after contracting the influenza A (frame)
NAPLES - Two new victims of influenza A in Naples.
The victims in Italy This brings the total to 14 including 8 in Naples. A woman admitted to the hospital's intensive care Cotugno, died this morning. The structure includes the medical director of Naples, Cosimo Maiorino.
The woman, BS 42, had reached the Cotugno hospital in Vico Equense: scope in the first division of infectious diseases on the morning of 26 October, the day after was transferred to intensive care.
"The clinical condition, despite ventilatory support and treatment have always been very serious. The death has occurred for circulatory arrest, "concludes the health direction.
The other victim - The other victim is a woman of 72 years, died Sunday Cardarelli Hospital in Naples, whose positive to the virus was detected only today. The elderly - as revealed by hospital officials - was suffering from serious diseases like respiratory system.
Random '- the highest number of fatalities after infection with influenza A H1N1 virus in Campania, however, is only "a chance. To ensure and the service manager Epidemiology ASL Naples 1 Andrea Simonetti.
"The fact that here there is more than half of infected patients died in Italy is due to chance - he says - in addition to" Cotugno "Naples are sorted all patients in the region, why is the hospital specializes in infectious diseases largest noon.
Played a part in causality is also from the fact that "the more densely populated urban areas, such as appointments Naples, the densification of the population also leads to a greater number of infections," he adds.
In total, said Simonetti, Campania occurred to October 29, 387 cases of infection, of which 220 in the capital. "And on deaths - warning - it is good to note that the rapid test, the only one that has been practiced in some cases, as in the girl's 11enne of Pompeii, often gives false positives."
OPEN INQUIRY INTO DEATH OF GIRL -
Meanwhile, the public prosecutor of Naples, Giovandomenico Lepore, said the news of the opening of a dossier, against persons unknown after the death of Emiliana D'Auria, the child of 11 years of Pompeii ( Naples) died at Santobono of Naples after contracting the influenza A. A "preliminary investigation to verify whether there is any possibility of crime and which may be useful for public health. We want to dispel - adds Lepore - any doubt about this case.
The results of the autopsy will serve not only to determine whether there are cases of crime, even to health for to really understand the nature of this virus, if and how it has played a role in the death of the child, if there were any past diseases. Relatives said the child was well and not suffering from any disease. So we want to understand what happened. "
http://www.corriere.it/cronache/09_...li_8baa528a-c78b-11de-ace9-00144f02aabc.shtml
Influenza A: two new victims in Naples
A woman has died in hospital and another Cotugno Hospital Cardarelli
Even a woman who died in Naples after contracting the influenza A (frame)
NAPLES - Two new victims of influenza A in Naples.
The victims in Italy This brings the total to 14 including 8 in Naples. A woman admitted to the hospital's intensive care Cotugno, died this morning. The structure includes the medical director of Naples, Cosimo Maiorino.
The woman, BS 42, had reached the Cotugno hospital in Vico Equense: scope in the first division of infectious diseases on the morning of 26 October, the day after was transferred to intensive care.
"The clinical condition, despite ventilatory support and treatment have always been very serious. The death has occurred for circulatory arrest, "concludes the health direction.
The other victim - The other victim is a woman of 72 years, died Sunday Cardarelli Hospital in Naples, whose positive to the virus was detected only today. The elderly - as revealed by hospital officials - was suffering from serious diseases like respiratory system.
Random '- the highest number of fatalities after infection with influenza A H1N1 virus in Campania, however, is only "a chance. To ensure and the service manager Epidemiology ASL Naples 1 Andrea Simonetti.
"The fact that here there is more than half of infected patients died in Italy is due to chance - he says - in addition to" Cotugno "Naples are sorted all patients in the region, why is the hospital specializes in infectious diseases largest noon.
Played a part in causality is also from the fact that "the more densely populated urban areas, such as appointments Naples, the densification of the population also leads to a greater number of infections," he adds.
In total, said Simonetti, Campania occurred to October 29, 387 cases of infection, of which 220 in the capital. "And on deaths - warning - it is good to note that the rapid test, the only one that has been practiced in some cases, as in the girl's 11enne of Pompeii, often gives false positives."
OPEN INQUIRY INTO DEATH OF GIRL -
Meanwhile, the public prosecutor of Naples, Giovandomenico Lepore, said the news of the opening of a dossier, against persons unknown after the death of Emiliana D'Auria, the child of 11 years of Pompeii ( Naples) died at Santobono of Naples after contracting the influenza A. A "preliminary investigation to verify whether there is any possibility of crime and which may be useful for public health. We want to dispel - adds Lepore - any doubt about this case.
The results of the autopsy will serve not only to determine whether there are cases of crime, even to health for to really understand the nature of this virus, if and how it has played a role in the death of the child, if there were any past diseases. Relatives said the child was well and not suffering from any disease. So we want to understand what happened. "
http://www.corriere.it/cronache/09_...li_8baa528a-c78b-11de-ace9-00144f02aabc.shtml