Italy - Man returns from Democratic Republic of Congo and dies of fever with haemorrhage, the only known contact isolated - Malaria identified

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https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2...a_dal_congo_muore_febbre_emorragica-423892610

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A 55-year-old man living in Treviso [redacted] who recently returned from a trip to Congo, died due to fever with hemorrhage. The case was reported by the public hygiene of the ASL Marca trevigiana.

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VENICE, 17 DEC - A suspected case of death due to fever with haemorrhage in a 55-year-old man, recently returned from a trip to Congo, resident in the province of Treviso, was communicated by the Public Health Hygiene Service of the Ulss 2 Marca company Treviso.

Investigations are underway to understand the origin of the disease, in collaboration with the Spallanzani hospital in Rome. The public health measures envisaged for these cases have been activated, in agreement with the Ministry of Health, Spallanzani and the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Fiduciary home isolation was ordered for the only known contact of the victim, who was called Andrea Poloni, he was the owner of Solosole srl, a company that deals with photovoltaic panels.

https://www.ilgiornaledivicenza.it/...agia-isolato-l-unico-contatto-noto-1.12530289

 

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It does not appear that he followed any pharmacological therapy, according to some testimonies he used herbs. His daughter would have had contact with him at a distance, remaining outside the door when he invited him to visit a doctor, without convincing him. The day before yesterday, seeing that he wasn't responding, she entered the apartment and found him lifeless, with blood from his nose and mouth. At that point the alarm went off at the health company, which took various samples to understand which disease caused the death.

The daughter was placed in home isolation. The samples were sent to Rome, to the Spallanzani hospital, and the Institute and ministry were also involved, from where yesterday they underlined how the man was 'returning from a trip to the African country in the capital Kinshasa and to the north along the Congo river' . So it was very far, about 700 kilometres, from the Panzi area, where cases of the disease not yet officially identified by the WHO were recorded.
The other suspected cases

“It is remembered that the previous cases of patients coming from Congo, again from the Kinshasa region, one admitted to the hospital in Lucca and the other in the hospital of Cosenza, have recovered and have been discharged”, the ministry always underlines. The first results of tests on the man hospitalized in Tuscany would have excluded measles, malaria and other known viruses. Genetic investigations are awaited because some infectious agents may have been missed in the first test on the patient's serum and blood, taken when he was already recovered.​

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2...morto_treviso-423893301/?ref=RHLM-BG-P7-S2-T1

 

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Andrea Poloni died from Plasmodium falciparum (the most aggressive infectious agent of malaria)

Andrea Poloni, the 55-year-old man who died after returning to the Marche from the Democratic Republic of Congo, had malaria. This was revealed by the tests carried out by the Spallanzani Institute in Rome which brought to light the presence of plasmodium falciparum, i.e. the most aggressive infectious agent, capable of causing one of the most violent forms of the infectious disease. The assessment therefore excludes any risk of contagion, given that malaria itself is not contagious even if transmission from the disease can occur, albeit in rare cases, through direct blood contact caused by accidental events or by the bite of a mosquito.


https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/andrea_poloni_morto_malaria_plasmodium_falciparum-8547031.html