Rome, 15 April 2024 – Dengue in Italy he recorded 117 cases from January 1 to April 8, 2024. “All associated with foreign trips”, specifies the Higher Institute of Health in its first seasonal bulletin. To clarify: last year, in the end, there were cases less than 400 (dozens of native ones).
Dengue, the map of cases in Italy, region by region
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Matteo Bassetti, head of infectious diseases at San Martino in Genoa: should this number be a cause for concern? “It is clear that the mosquito season begins precisely in this period – replies the professor -. From now on we have to be very careful so that imported cases do not turn into internal outbreaks.”
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At the top of the Dengue map is Veneto (24 cases)followed by Lazio (23) and Lombardy (21), Tuscany at a distance (13 cases), followed closely from Emilia Romagna (12 cases). The average age of those infected is 42 years, 50% are male, no deaths have occurred. This is the photograph taken by the Higher Institute of Health. And now? “The Ministry of Health – recalls Bassetti – recommends act locally with larvicidesthese are the strategic months.”
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But who should get the vaccine to protect yourself from the Dengue virus? Bassetti clarifies: “Definitely people who, in the age groups in which the vaccine is recommended, go to endemic areas for long periods. Then also those who have already had a first infection. Because the second could be more serious.” And everyone else? “For all other cases there is no recommendation for the vaccine. Right now it is more important to do preventionfrom mosquito nets to repellents”.
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