["Meningitis epidemic" in Italy in 2007].
Immuno and chemo prophylaxis are at present valid tools for meningitidis control and prevention. Meningitidis is however a severe, not infrequent, disease, with a great emotional impact on the population, as shown by the reactions that followed the recent epidemic in Veneto. Public Health personnel must be prepared to give a rapid and correct information in order to allow everybody to act properly to maintain health.
Dipartimento Sanità Pubblica - Università Tor Vergata, Roma.
Laura
L
Zaratti
Roberto
R
Papa
Sabrina
S
Senatore
Elisabetta
E
Franco
D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history*; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008581:Meningitis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000266:history*