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1. Seasonal flu and flu-like syndromes: increasing incidence.
In the collective imagination, seasonal influenza represents an inescapable event whose health and social impact has, since time immemorial, been largely underestimated. In contrast, influenza is one...
2. Prevention and control of flu syndrome
...Health has issued a circular containing recommendations for the prevention and control of seasonal influenza (Ministry of Health. Prevention and control of influenza: recommendations for the 2018-2019...
3. Flu vaccine
...sentinel doctors". These doctors perform laboratory tests on all their patients showing symptoms of influenza, in order to isolate the virus in circulation and include it in the following season’s flu...
4. Flu surveillance in Sardinia
...active in Italy from 2009-2010, this reporting system communicates serious and complicated cases of influenza to the Ministry: these cases involve hospitalisation in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and/or...
5. Seasonal Flu Update: The call for vaccination!
Integrated influenza surveillance is based on a network of sentinel physicians consisting of General Practitioners (GPs) and Pediatricians of Choice (PFCs), recruited by the regions, who report cases...
6. 17 September 2020: World Patient Safety Day
...World Immunisation Week, International Nurse’s Day, the Vaccine Communication Campaign for anti-influenza vaccination which won the first PerchéSì prize for the best vaccination communication project...
7. Influenza (Flu)
...cause for contact, which explains why the disease is more widespread in winter. Sintomi e complicanzeInfluenza is usually self-limiting with a benign clinical outcome. In some groups of people, such...
8. Influenza vaccine and Guillain Barrè syndrome
The hypothesisThe hypothesis that influenza vaccination may be associated with Guillain Barrè Syndrome emerged for the first time between 1976 and 1977 in the USA1-6. In the 6-8 weeks after the anti-influenza...
9. Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a bacterium that often causes severe infections, especially among children under the age of 5. Hib usually causes a flu-like illness, which resolves within a few...
10. Anti-flu vaccination and over the 65s: the real needs of the elderly population
...embodies the best preventive strategy to reduce the epidemiological, clinical and economic impact of influenza. Among the applicable strategies, the most effective is unquestionably protection of the...
