PADUA – Simone Pillitteri falls ill with Dengue in Indonesia and ends up in hospital. Since yesterday, in fact, the councilor of the Giordani list who, for some time has spent some months of the year in the Asian state, has been hospitalized due to Dengue.
“After three days of fever at 40, this morning I thought it best to come to the clinic here on the island – Pillitteri said yesterday afternoon – they immediately connected me to an IV and did blood tests. I tested positive for Dengue. Now I’m hospitalized and I’ll have tests again tomorrow morning. If the thrombosis values were to drop too low, they would put me in a helicopter and take me to the super hospital in Bali, it would be my first helicopter flight – said the Jordanian representative who seems not to have lost his good humor – At the moment the experience with the local health system is positive, everyone is kind, super professional and always smiling.” In short, despite everything, the president of the Social Services Commission seems to maintain a certain optimism.
Infections linked to this virus have also been recorded in the recent past in the Padua area. Last July, a young man resident in Teolo was infected after returning from a trip to Thailand, where he is presumed to have contracted the disease. Of viral origin, Dengue is caused by four very similar viruses and is transmitted to humans by mosquito bites which, in turn, bite an infected person.
There is therefore no direct contagion between humans, even if humans are the main host of the virus. The virus circulates in the blood of the infected person for 2-7 days, and in this period the mosquito can pick it up and transmit it to others. Dengue has been known for over two centuries, and is particularly present during and after the rainy season in the tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, Southeast Asia and China, India, the Middle East, Latin and Central America, Australia and various areas of the Pacific. In recent decades, the spread of Dengue has increased in many tropical regions.
In the countries of the northern hemisphere, particularly in Europe, it constitutes a danger from a global health perspective, given that it manifests itself above all as an imported disease, the increase of which is due to the increased frequency of movement of goods and people.
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