A person getting back from Congo who
offered flu-like signs probably attributable to the
illness that has effects on a area of the African nation was
hospitalized in Lucca in current days and has already been
discharged, Maria Rosaria Campitiello, Head of the Prevention
Department of the Ministry of Health, stated Sunday.
The affected person was hospitalized within the San Luca hospital in Lucca
from November 22 to December 3, the day he was discharged
as a result of he had recovered.
This morning the Lucca hospital knowledgeable the Istituto Superiore
di Sanità which is monitoring the state of affairs.
The ministry is continuing with the required checks and the
samples taken will probably be analyzed by the Istituto Superiore della
Sanità (Higher Health Institute, ISS).
On Friday some 140 individuals had been reported to have died of the
thriller illness in Congo, however this toll was slashed to round
30-40 on Saturday.
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