A 17-year-old boy is hospitalized in Bassano, in the Vicenza area, after suffering from meningococcal type B meningitis.
The patient is in resuscitation, the prognosis is reserved.
He had gone to the emergency room with symptoms that immediately triggered the suspicion, confirmed by subsequent tests.
The public health and hygiene service of Ulss 7 Pedemontana has taken steps to reconstruct the movements of the minor and already this afternoon distributed prophylaxis to the closest contacts, who have in the meantime been identified, about sixty people.
«The codified procedure for dealing with this type of emergency has proven to work well - explains Carlo Bramezza, director general of Ulss 7 -. The emergency room and resuscitation doctors were able to immediately place the diagnostic suspicion, which was then confirmed very promptly by the analysis laboratory. And the intervention of the Sisp was also very timely for the contact tracing activity for the necessary prophylaxis ».
(Unionenline/ss)
