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51. World Polio Day 2021: Awareness and Perspectives in the COVID-19 era
...vaccination. Thanks to mass vaccination campaigns, polio cases have fallen by 99.9% since 1988, and Italy itself was officially certified 'polio-free' on 21 June 2002 (although the last case in the country...
52. “Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance”. World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021.
...between 2015 and 2050 if efforts to stem the spread of antibiotic resistance are not intensified. Italy, in particular, is one of the European countries with the highest levels of AMR, consistently higher...
53. #Onelessworry: International HPV Awareness Day
...examination that identifies precancerous or cancerous lesions in the cervix. Today, screening programmes in Italy actively offer a free test every three years to all women between the ages of 25 and...
54. World Immunization Week 2022: Long Life for All
...not fully protected against the human papillomavirus (HPV) compared to the previous year. Also in Italy, the data on routine vaccination coverage for 2020 are not encouraging: the data describe a general...
55. “Preventing Antimicrobical Resistance Together”: Health professionals and citizens unite against Antimicrobial Resistance.
...microorganisms occur annually in Europe: these are responsible for 33,000 deaths, of which more than 10,000 in Italy given the high prevalence of antibiotic-resistant infections. Italy is one of the...
56. International Cervical Cancer Elimination Day
...populations with high coverage rates. However, despite the proven effectiveness, vaccination coverage in Italy has margins for improvement, with percentages below the targets set by the National Vaccine...
57. Reflections on COVID19: strategies, management and programming
"Nobody could have imagined, when in China in late 2019 the deaths from coronavirus were still being classified as "deaths from pneumonia of unknown origin", or when there was talk of only the spread...
58. Italian Ministry of Health has published the official data relating to vaccination coverage for 2019.
...2019As regards the elderly population, on the other hand, from Fig. 5 it is possible to deduce that in Italy, the desirable vaccination coverage rate of 75% in over 65s has never been reached and in...
59. Cholera
...in Sierra Leone in October where the total number of cases reported was 20,736 with 280 deaths. In Italy, the last major cholera epidemic dates back to 1973 in Campania and Puglia. In 1994 an epidemic...
60. Tick -Borne Encephalitis (TBE)
...total. Most infections result from tick bites received during outdoor activities in wooded areas. In Italy the cases are increasing, from 2 cases recorded in 1992 to 19 cases in 2002, and it is endemic...
