“If you start with a vaccination program against monkeypox must be offered to all Italians who fall into potentially risky categories. We must start with a national campaign, available in all Italian regions and we must do it quickly, because Italy is lagging behind other countries despite being in tenth place for the number of cases “. Thus Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the Policlinico San Martino in Genoa, after the announcement of the Lazio health councilor, Alessio D’Amato (“the Spallanzani of Rome is ready to go with the vaccine”).
“We too receive many requests but we have to answer that in Italy, at this moment, it is not yet possible to get the vaccine”, comments Bassetti to time.news Salute, adding that the announcement on Spallanzani “is good news but it cannot be there. ‘only center to vaccinate “.
It’s still. On monkeypox “I believe that the ideological aspect had a great influence – argues Bassetti – because two months ago I had warned that the contagion primarily concerns homosexual males aged between 20 and 40, and this was it. 25 thousand cases in the world, and over 95% concern this category of people, to whom it would be good to offer the vaccination. But we must rush – is the warning – we are always late “.