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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 26 January 2020 The 5-year-old Genoese boy, admitted to the Gaslini Pediatric Institute in the morning for suspected meningoencephalitis, tested positive for Meningococcus.

The Health Directorate of the Gaslini Institute has informed that: "The realization of the typing of the strain will follow. The Genoese ASL will carry out prophylaxis for close contacts as per National and Regional Guidelines".

At present the conditions of the child are unchanged. Except for sudden developments in the conditions of the child, the Health Department will provide updates on Monday 27 January at 12.00.

In Benevento teacher with meningitis, her condition is serious
A teacher from the kindergarten of Benevento affected by meningitis was transferred and hospitalized in very serious conditions in the Cotugno hospital in Naples. The thirty-year-old teacher was transferred from the hospital of Benevento to the Neapolitan hospital, a specialized hospital health center for the treatment of infectious diseases and infectious diseases.

In the city, the news aroused alarm and concern, especially for the family of the woman and the parents of the children. The ASL has started the prophylaxis procedures, which provides for the intake of antibiotics by all those who have come into contact with the teacher, starting with his family, for his partner, for his son and for all people. with whom the teacher had contacts in the last 7/8 days and for the 16 children of the school where the patient works, including the staff of the educational institution. However, 14 of the teacher's pupil children had already received the vaccine for meningitis while the other 2 had not done so for health reasons. At the moment there is talk of an isolated episode .

Palermo in prognosis reserved teacher admitted for meningitis. Doctors assure: "No risk of contagion"
In Palermo, a 53-year-old teacher who teaches at the Children's Hospital has been hospitalized since yesterday afternoon in a prognosis reserved for the Civic Hospital of Palermo. The woman arrived at the emergency room with the typical symptoms of the disease. Following the certain diagnosis after the controls provided for by the protocol, the specific procedures of these cases were activated. The teacher's relatives have already undergone the necessary prophylaxis.
The Asp of Palermo has communicated that the situation is under control . The teacher had not been going to work for a few days and all the people who came into contact with the woman were reached and notified.