The first 125,000 cases of seasonal flu are reported

L & # 39;seasonal flu In Italy, 125,000 people have already started to lie down: most children have been most affected. Meanwhile, the race for influenza vaccines is starting well these days. In the forty-third week of 2018, it appears from the first weekly InfluNet surveillance bulletin published by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, that influenza had a total impact of 1.17% of symptom-badisted cases and that It was in general basic levels of the circulation of the virus [VIDEO]for children under four, the incidence is about 2.36% of cases per 1,000 badisted people.

Last week, there were about seventy thousand cases, but by calculating all those recorded since the beginning of the surveillance started in mid-October, the data are brought to one hundred and twenty thousand.

Seasonal influence of average intensity

Seasonal influence [VIDEO] According to experts, this year will be an epidemic of medium intensity, which will require about five million Italian. this The situation will cost families and the state almost as much as an economic maneuver, where the most serious losses are related to absences from work and cash withdrawals related to over-the-counter medications. Influenza vaccines, on the other hand, are inexpensive, even though they are still little used. Only 14% of the population use influenza vaccine, while 60% have never used it.

According to the European Center for Infectious Disease Control, it is also because of those who do not get vaccinated that the virus continues to claim many lives.

The campaign for the flu vaccine

Throughout Italy, the usual campaign for the vaccine promoted by the Ministry of Health and is free for pregnant women, chronic patients, health workers and the elderly. Also this year, vaccination will be free, even for blood donors. The pediatricians' council must vaccinate even children under six, especially when they are brought to the nest. For the protection of infants under six months of age, parents and family members should be vaccinated in close contact with the same newborn. Experts also point out that, due to the ongoing seasonal flu, antibiotics are not needed. rest and paracetamol.