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“They’re crazy,” former centre-Left prime minister Matteo Renzi wrote on Twitter this week after another eight cases emerged in Bari, in the southern Puglia region.
“They need to renounce their ‘no-vax’ stance. Science is right, they are wrong.”
A midwife working at a hospital in central Italy was sacked this week after refusing to undergo vaccinations.
The decision to dismiss her was backed by Dr Roberto Burioni, a leading vaccinations expert.
“A health professional who refuses vaccinations is not just an inexcusable ignoramus, but also close to criminal.
“The presence of an unvaccinated person in a ward where pregnant women give birth is like lighting a match in a petrol depot.”
In Britain, there has been a similar debate on the need for vaccinations, with the proportion of children having the MMR immunisation falling for the fourth year in a row.
The proportion of children under two receiving the MMR jab is now down to 91.2%.
That has led to a measles outbreak in England, with nearly 900 cases confirmed this year – triple the number detected the year before.
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