“From yesterday to today the cases have quadrupled”. Matteo Bassetti thus introduces the numbers of what is likely to be the next pandemic: monkeypox. On Facebook the infectious disease specialist of San Martino di Genova shows, country by country, the infections. The total? 175. A figure that alarms the expert, worried that the mistake committed with Covid could be replicated: “We have seen it with the Covid-19 pandemic – he writes -, infectious diseases must not be underestimated. Now let’s follow the situation of the infection from monkeypox, which has arrived in Europe. We hope not to have to deal with new outbreaks “.
As Bassetti himself recalls, it is about “another infection that had never been seen transmitted from man to man in our continent. “There are currently three cases registered in Italy. One of them, patient” zero “had returned from the Canary Islands when he began to feel the first symptoms: from fever to headache and pustules.
On his way to the hospital, the 40-year-old was hospitalized at Spallanzani in Rome. The man is still fine, but further analysis is needed. Like him, two other people were infected. Among the three – are the first information – there would be no link.
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