The flu, the first official case in Campania: a hospitalized child

In a two-year-old child admitted to Santobono, the first strain of the 2018 H1-N1 flu virus in Campania was isolated. In fact, this is the first official case of seasonal influenza pandemic in 2018 reported by the structures structures to the InfluNet national surveillance network. The diagnosis was made by the Cotugno (Société des cous) badysis laboratory badigned to this activity. The case of infection had been recorded about 20 days in advance compared to what had happened last year, when the first report to the national epidemiological surveillance network on influenza took place on December 19th. "Of course – say infectivity experts monitoring network in Campania – there will be many other carriers of the virus between adults and children.Now, the number of cases is expected to increase. To date, by the way, all the participants in the InfluNet survey have not made the data available. In Italy, at the 47th week of 2018, the total national incidence rate is equal to 2.28 cases per 1,000 badisted people, or below the threshold that determines the beginning of the epidemic period. The estimated number of cases this week is about 138,000, for a total of about 505,000 cases since the start of surveillance. In Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Autonomous Province of Trento, Tuscany, Abruzzo and Sicily (the only southern region), the national epidemic threshold was exceeded. In all other regions, the epidemic is now at the baseline.

In Campania, flu shots were distributed from 1 November to all family doctors, which is comparable to last year. For the first time, this distribution was performed with doses of pneumococcal vaccine useful for preventing pneumonia and even meningitis. . However, most doctors have already exhausted their stocks. "Difficult in this situation – warns a general practitioner conducting a study on the National Square – to successfully increase the vaccination levels of the population against influenza.New stocks of vaccines are needed immediately and before the epidemic, in urban centers and inland provinces ".