28 Oct 2009

Flu death in Naples

More details about the patient who died yesterday in Naples after being infected by H1N1 flu virus. He was a doctor, affected by anaemia, obesity and cardiac disease. On Monday he was admitted at Cotugno Hospital because of pneumonia. According the local newspaper Il Mattino, he didn't got vaccination because the regional health units have run out of the doses, primarily used for health care workers. The Italian Deputy Minister of Health Ferruccio Fazio said in an interview that the pandemic has started off and that in some part of Italy,, especially in South Italy, the vaccination campaign is late.
Personally, I don't understand who is late, the vaccine manufacturer, the national health structure or the local one.

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