There is talk of the Nile Fever in the new episode of "15 minutes with ..." the in-depth talk on the health of the Cagliari university hospital in collaboration with the Unione Sarda group.
The appointment is for today, Tuesday 18 October, at 5 pm on the social networks of the Aou of Cagliari (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter), on the website www.aoucagliari.it, on the Facebook page of the Unione Sarda and on www .unionesarda.it.
As always, viewers will be able to ask questions live. Tomorrow the readers of the Sardinian Union will find the in-depth information on the “Health” insert of the newspaper.
The guest of the column, conducted by the journalist Fabrizio Meloni, Head of Communication and External Relations of the Aou, will be Dr. Ferdinando Coghe, director of the Duilio Casula analysis laboratory and medical director of the University Hospital of Cagliari.
As mentioned, we will talk about Nile Fever (West Nile Fever) disease caused by the West Nile virus that is transmitted by mosquito bites.
In Sardinia, in the last period, there have been several cases. In the latest bulletin of integrated surveillance published by the Higher Institute of Health, there were seven infected people, one of whom died.
The infection has an incubation period that varies between 2 and 14 days. In most infected people, it shows no symptoms; about 20% have mild symptoms such as fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, swollen lymph nodes, rashes. But, in the elderly and in debilitated people, the symptoms can be more severe.
The talk "15 minutes with ..." is edited by Aou Cagliari News, the newspaper of the university hospital. Agile and simple format, it includes 15 minutes of question and answer with the specialists and the possibility for the public to ask questions live.
