Lessons ended in advance today in Lipari for the students of the “Isa Conti Eller Vainicher” high school and the Lipari Comprehensive Institute – Santa Lucia for a Suspected case of encephalitis, found in a young student attending the “Conti”, transferred, due to his conditions at the Polyclinic of Messina. The activities of the football and basketball school is also suspended. The spread of the news, as was predictable, aroused concern and alarmism in the island population. The necessary investigations by the health authorities in charge were immediately triggered to establish if it is this pathology and what the possible causes may be: viral or bacterial.
The island doctors, stored calls by worried parents, highlight that the contagion takes place only by direct contact with the infected person and, therefore, to avoid unnecessary alarmisms. The mayor of Lipari, Riccardo GulloFor the safety of public health, he ordered the closure, for tomorrow, of all the school complexes located in the territory of the Municipality of Lipari for the performance of extraordinary cleaning operations.
The ordinance of the first citizen follows the note forwarded to him by the school manager of the accounts, Tommasa Basilewith which he told him that he received from the Lipari Territorial Hospital, on behalf of the University Hospital of Messina, who welcomes a student of the Institute in the Resuscitation Department (diagnosis “Encephalic syndrome of dubious viral origin”), the communication of dating promptly to a specific prophylaxis for those who have been in direct or indirect contact with the boy “.