Meningitis Risk Factors: Who’s At Risk & How to Manage It

In France The alert continues lists. The French press has in fact communicated new updates on the infection it is continuing to spread on French territory. Until now, 21 people have contracted the virus, two of whom died. According to the French National Agency for Public Health, the people affected by the bacterium are 11 women and 10 men between 34 and 95 years old. Eighteen people are over 65.

The words of prof. Bassetti

Matteo Bassettidirector of the infectious diseases of the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Genoa, thus spoke to Adnokros, after the Alert in the French territory: “That of the Listeriosis is a problem we know. In raw milk cheeses there is no pasteurization and this makes some risks that may be present such as listeriosis or even e.coli. Now this problem must be managed, but on the theme of raw milk cheeses, a reasoning should be made and change a lot. In France, the sale to children is prohibited, something has been done in Italy but more information and more food education should have been made. The MonocyTogenes listeria is a bad beast, it is a microorganism that especially in immunosuppressed and fragile can cause important problems until death. But it can also give forms of meningitis or severe sepsis. We also in Italy in the past had a problem with listeria, it is the summer of food safety, we think about botulinum and now the listeriosis “.