Il Ministry of Health sent a new circular Regions for intensify controls at national borders on all vehicles transporting goods from countries considered at risk.
Planes and ships will have to be kept under observation if they have simply passed through or made intermediate stops in an area considered at risk.
Symptoms of the Dengue virus
The symptoms detected so far are: fever, acute headaches, pain around and behind the eyes, strong muscle pain e to the joints, nausea and vomit, skin irritations which may appear on most of the body 3-4 days after the onset of fever.
What are the procedures dictated by the WHO?
The alarming situation around the world requires immediate intervention also in Italy to prevent the arrival of infected mosquitoes.
According to the circular from the Ministry of Health i Methods e le disinfection procedures they must be the approved ones from the WHO and reported in the document «Who aircraft disinsection methods and procedures, 2nd ed».
Local measures will need to be put in place monitoring, identify all potential sites at risk of introducing new invasive mosquito species and implement also controls blood donations. Furthermore, it will be necessary train healthcare personnel and provide guidance to citizens.
Since these are public health measures, failure to comply with the instructions given will result in a warning reporting to the supervisory bodies competent as it falls within the cases referred to inarticle 650 of the Criminal Code.
The health situation in Italy and the vaccine
The man intervened on the issue scientific director Simit, the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Professor Massimo Andreoni, explaining that last year there were 83 cases of people who have acquired the disease in Italy e not abroad and he claims that this problem will certainly increase with the arrival of summer.
There are gods vaccines effective to combat this virus, but in Italy, at the moment, they will not be administered as the level of infections is not such as to justify vaccination.
