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71. Vaccinating against Hepatitis B
The disease before and after the vaccination campaign in Italy Figure 1 shows the incidence rates per 100,000 of hepatitis A, B and C, per year. Data Seieva 1985-2010* Since 2009, Hepatitis COver time...
72. Vaccinating against Poliomyelitis
The disease before and after the vaccination campaign in Italy In industrialised countries, before the introduction of vaccination campaigns in the 1960s, polio epidemics affected thousands of children...
73. The real risks associated with vaccinations
...events occur after vaccination, they are recorded and evaluated through a system of reporting. In Italy the system of detecting adverse reactions is managed by the pharmacovigilance authority, the Italian...
74. There is no association between the mercury contained in some vaccines and neurological diseases
...no greater than expected based on chance alone29. The results of the second study, carried out in Italy on a cohort of children who had participated in a previous clinical trial with randomised comparison...
75. Vaccines: truth and myth
...Istituto Superiore di Sanità and shared by the media, reported a worrying drop in vaccination coverage in Italy. This fear of vaccination, which unfortunately affects not only parents but also sometimes...
76. Regional Vaccination Campaign: how to vaccinate against influenza.
...disease and to reducing the related costs. In this regard, Vaccinarsisnardegna.org reminds users that in Italy, vaccination is offered actively and free of charge to all subjects aged 65 and over, in...
77. Health and travel
...vaccinated. The traveller is also subject to pathologies that are now rare or have disappeared in Italy, but very widespread in many countries, including malaria, rabies, typhoid fever and yellow fever...
78. Measles, a disease that should not be underestimated
...determining factors. In the first three months of the year, there were 557 cases of measles reported in Italy: 177 in January, 170 in February and 210 in March, with an incidence of 36.8 cases per million...
79. Childhood vaccination: regional coverage still inadequate
...infectious disease prevention, from 2013 to 2016 vaccination coverage showed a significant decrease in Italy, reaching percentages that were dramatically lower than the 95% coverage strongly recommended...
80. A new case of bacterial meningitis in Sardinia: however, it is not meningococcal
...caused by the serogroups of Meningococcus A, B, C, Y, W135, of which B and C are the most common in Italy. When faced with these cases it is therefore necessary to carry out the prophylaxis of close...
