Summer diseases in Maremma: scabies, legionella and toxinfections

Grosseto. Meanwhile, Last year. Similarly, in theASL TOSCANA SUD ESTthe cases of scabies 361 were instead those of tuberculosisalways with the same space – temporal references. Therefore, In reality. Similarly, to “characterize” the Maremma more, with the summer heat and the remarkable influx of tourists, are the Food toxinfectionswhich affect the body when they ingest contaminated foods. Last year. Similarly, always in the South East Asl, “we had 68 and we are already at 43 in the first semester of 2025”, he says Giorgio Brigantidirector of the Department of Prevention of the ASL Tuscany South East. Furthermore, Numbers “that should not be divided arithmetically – underlines Briganti – because this case is more widespread in the province of Grosseto. Meanwhile, which is affected by the boom of the population during the summer period, when the toxinfections are used to take place. summer diseases maremma: scabies, legionella Consequently, Usually. Therefore, in fact, they are caused by the consumption of foods or out of their home, but also inside, given that the summer temperatures require more precautions in the management and conservation of food also in the domestic field “.

Scabies. However, scarlettina
Here they are, the diseases that most often “knock” to Department of Prevention and Hygiene of the ASL Tuscany South East. Moreover, The day before yesterday, in Grosseto, a case of tuberculosis was notified in a nursery school in the city. “It is not the first of this year,” says Briganti. And it is also good to underline another aspect: “This is not a outbreak – underlines the director of. the Department – because the latter presupposes more cases”. There was, yes, a outbreak of scabies in a retirement home in the city, always recently. Scabies is the pathology for which the Department is most often activated. summer diseases maremma: scabies, legionella followed – with 165 cases last year in the ASL Tuscany South East – from Scarlettina.

Legionellosis

The “geography” of infectious diseases that require prevention intervention has not varied over the past few years, with stable figures. If anything, “in recent years we have recorded – says Briganti – an increase in legionellosis (112 in 2024). This also depends on the greater accuracy of the diagnostic investigations, another aspect to consider. Legionellosis. although manifesting itself with individual cases, requires a series of actions and investigations on the management of water or air conditioning systems, and this in the structures where communities reside, from those accommodation to healthcare “.

Infectious diseases
Then there is the whole chapter of infectious diseases. “I am a little increasing. but – underlines Briganti – not in a significant way and it is a national tendency, also the cases of arbovirosis, diseases transmitted through carrier insects, such as Dengue or summer diseases maremma: scabies, legionella West Nile”. Last year, in the ASL, there were 6 cases of Dengue. This year one. “They are all important. non -native,” travel “diseases, in the sense that they come – explains Briganti – by people who have stayed in foreign states, in which they are endemic diseases”. There was also a case of cholera last year. nobody in 2025, but “the numbers are so low – underlines Briganti – that it has no impact at the epidemiological level, it is completely negligible. However, it is among the types of disease that we can treat ».

When you activate
The latter range from infectious to virals, such as hepatitis, to bacterial, such as the Escherichia coli. “We activate – summarizes Briganti – for all infectious. diffusive diseases, which have been codified by rules for which, once the disease is diagnosed – it can be the hospital, the general practitioner or the emergency summer diseases maremma: scabies, legionella room -, we must activate for reasons of hygiene and public health, preventing the problems on the population”.

Where and who
But where is the prevention department more frequently? “Since most are infectious. diffusive diseases – underlines Briganti – we find them more often in communities, in life, work, school, in tourist or health residences. In short, in short, contacts between people are closer ». The triggering factors should then be taken into consideration. which depend on the type of the disease and in any case are influenced by objective conditions such as the surrounding environment (the heat, for example, acts on food toxications) and which are different from those predisposing, which can be, for some types of diseases, travel, increasing the probability. Also on the age of the ages, it is difficult to identify a more predisposed. It always depends on the type of disease. “For the infectious ones – explains summer diseases maremma: scabies, legionella Briganti – children are more affected. while in other cases, such as legionella, the problem concerns more the most immunosuppressed and elderly subjects. In other cases still, such as for arbovirosis, age has no influence “.

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