Yesterday evening, a Hantavirus test was requested and carried out on an Argentine tourist who left an endemic area on April 30th and arrived in Italy on a Buenos Aires-Rome flight. The tourist subsequently went to Messina where she was hospitalized at the Polyclinic for pneumonia. This was announced by the Ministry of Health.
Patient hospitalized for pneumonia. There is no certainty that it is Hantavirus
The director of the Spem of the ASP of Messina Mariella Santoro, having now learned the news, announces that the Argentine tourist patient is still hospitalized in isolation in intensive care at the Messina Polyclinic. She was hospitalized for pneumonia. There is no certainty of Hantavirus, Spallanzani of Rome will say so. For now it’s not certain, it’s just a suspicion.
Yesterday he was requested by local health authorities to carry out the test for Hantavirus. The sample relating to the tourist was transported by the NAS to Spallanzani in Rome where it will be analyzed together with the sample taken from the twenty-five-year-old Calabrian in fiduciary isolation.
Also yesterday, a British tourist was also traced on Italian soil, in Milan, who is considered a contact as he traveled on the St Helena-Johannesburg flight on which the first victim’s wife was.
Italy received the report from the British government and the Ministry of Health, with the support of the Ministry of the Interior, tracked down the tourist and contacted the Lombardy Region which immediately took action. The tourist was transported to the Sacco hospital in Milan for quarantine, as established by the ministerial circular of 11 May. With him, at Sacco, as a precaution, also a companion traveling with the tourist. The Ministry, it is underlined, will continue to inform promptly and transparently on the evolution of the situation.