Pensioner affected by cholera, the origin of the bacterium ascertained

"The bacterial strain isolated in the Arbus patient does not belong to the types responsible for most cholera epidemics ". So the councilor for health Carlo Doria about the case of cholera registered last week in Sardinia , the first since 1973.

«The confirmation - continues Doria - arrived today from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità which communicated the negativity of the sample to strains 01 and 0139. Further good news, in a situation best managed by the regional health system, with the coordination of the Department of Health".

"Timeliness and competence, which already emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic, have once again characterized the operation of the Public Hygiene services of the Cagliari and Medio Campidano Local Health Authorities - continues the councilor - which scrupulously carried out the investigations and the monitoring without ever underestimating anything, of the Aou of Cagliari, which was the first to identify the pathogen, and of the Infectious ward of the Santissima Trinità hospital, where the hospitalized patient is on the road to recovery ».

The cholera patient is a 71-year-old pensioner from Arbus. No contagion would have been found among the man's family members or among the people who usually frequent him and who however continue to be monitored.

(Unioneonline/vl)