The ingestion of non-potable water with the presence of non-purified wastewater. Or the consumption of raw seafood.
These are the two possible causes of the cholera case registered last week in Sardinia , the first since 1973.
For greater certainty , we await the results of the investigations related to the typing of the bacterium, carried out in Rome , at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità.
As for the infected patient - a 71-year-old pensioner from Arbus, hospitalized in the infectious diseases department of the Santissima Trinità of Cagliari - his conditions, confirms the bulletin of the health department of the ASL 8, led by Roberto Massazza, "are stable".
From what has been learned, no contagion would have been found among the man's family members or among the people who usually visit the patient, who however continue to be monitored.
(Unioneonline/lf)
