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A case of meningococcal B meningitis was reported yesterday in a 28-year-old man who lives and works in Florence. The affected person will not be vaccinated for meningococcus B and is at the moment hospitalized in essential situation.
The well being staff instantly acknowledged the scientific image and reported the case to the Florence Public Hygiene and Diet Motion Unit 1 which acted by implementing all the mandatory preventive interventions, provides medical prophylaxis to the shut contacts that emerged from the epidemiological research in line with the indications within the Round of the Ministry of Well being “Prevention and management of invasive bacterial illnesses that may be prevented by vaccination” of 05 /09/2017.
Meningococcal meningitis Kind B primarily impacts younger youngsters, adolescents and younger adults and might trigger extreme scientific image. Within the Tuscany Area, vaccination in opposition to meningococcus sort B was launched freed from cost ranging from newborns in 2014 and to topics in danger. For the final inhabitants entry to cost-sharing vaccination is feasible.
2024-07-27 11:46:14
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