The influence in Italy has arrived early and there is already a serious case. It is a 50-year-old, free of other diseases, hospitalized in Udine in Reanimation in September and now being improved.
The flu form, experts say, will be more aggressive than in previous years and comes from the countries of the southern hemisphere.
The Italian Society of Infectious Therapy (Sita) recalls the importance of vaccination and launches the appeal again. Infectivologists also analyze the characteristics of the hospitalized patient: a perfectly healthy 50-year-old person without any other disease, which does not therefore fall into the categories at risk. "If these are the signals, with a first diagnosis already at the end of September, and if the scenario recorded in Australia and other parts of the world is repeated, we will face a particularly aggressive flu season, with the circulation of very different influenza viruses: H3N2 , as in this case, H1N1, virus B ", comments Matteo Bassetti, president of Sita.
"This case – he adds – suggests that this year's flu, even if it doesn't have extraordinary numbers like those of winter 2017-18, can affect healthy people and reinforces the message that vaccination must be universal because it does not there is a category of subjects spared from potential complications ".
In Parma, last September 25, the first seasonal flu virus was isolated from a throat swab of a 6-year-old girl admitted to the general and emergency pediatric ward.
However, the outbreak itself will occur with the arrival of lower temperatures.
(Unioneonline / SS.)
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