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Ebola, alarm cleared for two suspected cases at the Fatebenefratelli Hospital. Bertolaso’s anger: “Alarmism was to be avoided.”

Virological tests performed at the Sacco Hospital reference laboratory in Milan came back negative. This was communicated yesterday evening by the Regional Welfare Councilor, Guido Bertolaso, with regard to the two suspected cases, reported in the early hours of the day and hospitalized with symptoms compatible with Ebola virus infection. The patients, a 31-year-old and a 33-year-old, tested negative for Ebola, as well as for malaria and the main respiratory viruses currently monitored.

The two, along with another five compatriots, were part of an international cooperative group recently returned to Italy after having “provided assistance in Uganda for approximately three months,” Bertolaso explained, and “during the night they had manifested symptoms such as high fever, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea with a slight neurological component.” Yesterday evening, the sigh of relief.

“The clinical condition of the two subjects remains under observation. In light of the initial diagnostic results – Bertolaso continued – one of the hypotheses currently considered is an infection of bacterial origin affecting the gastrointestinal tract.” However, the councilor pointed out the leak of information, which had created alarm: “If this morning the correct timelines and procedures had been respected – the councilor concluded – an unwarranted media alarm could have been avoided, which has resulted in a considerable deployment of resources and operational activities.”

Pregliasco: “Thanks to Covid, we are now better prepared”

According to virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, the activation of “health monitoring towards some subjects returning from Uganda demonstrates how the Italian infectious disease preparedness system is today particularly attentive to international scenarios.”

“At this moment, global attention is focused on the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a context that requires strengthened surveillance, especially for travelers coming from affected or neighboring areas,” says the virologist.

“Today we have a national network much more prepared than in the past, thanks to the experience gained during the Covid-19 pandemic and the continuous coordination systems between the Ministry of Health, the Superior Institute of Health, the Regions and reference centers such as Sacco and Spallanzani. The situation is constantly monitored at the European level through the Health Security Committee of the EU Commission.”

“Therefore, it is correct to maintain high vigilance, but without creating alarm: at the current level, the risk to the Italian population remains very low and the healthcare system is fully operational to identify and manage suspected cases promptly,” Pregliasco emphasizes. The risk for our country, reassure officials, “remains very low.”

Ebola, alarm over in two suspected cases at Sacco. Bertolaso’s anger: “Alarmism was to be avoided”

#Bertolaso #theSaccoHospital #Milan #Italy #Uganda #FabrizioPregliasco #Italian #theMinistryofHealth #Regions #Sacco #Spallanzani #European #theEUCommission #Pregliasco

https://www.lanotiziagiornale.it/ebola-allarme-rientrato-per-due-casi-sospetti-al-sacco-lira-di-bertolaso-andava-evitato-lallarmismo/

Review: The Once And Future Riot by Joe Sacco

This is probably the first book I have read that explicitly mentions that no AI models can be trained on it. Welcome to the times. Local libraries are a much better source, just like bookstores, for discovering unheard of and interesting books. A thousand times so than Amazon where the clutter overpowers one’s senses and the recommended books are nothing out of the box.

I had neither heard of Joe Sacco nor about his books. I am lagging behind my reading on books on Palestine since many years and in general too. The fact that I hadn’t come across his award-winning one shouldn’t come as a surprise. Neither should it surprise you that the likes of Sacco like to believe and spread the one-dimensional-view of Hindutva, trying their best to paint the narrative that Hindutva is the cause of religious tensions in India. Someone should ask his kind were there no riots on religiously ferverish lines before Hindutva’s rise? Politicians are no saints, and the favourite scrouge of mine, ‘democracy’, has been written about as if some magical cure to all ills. If politicians, religious staunchness, countries can be critized, why can’t authors, concepts be?

Having said that, Sacco does present facts as neutrally and objectively possible, though with a tinge of bias — and that’s alright. At least he presents facts from all sides — a trait lacking in most Indian media nowadays where they pander to only one side of the spectrum (whatever that side be). He interviews first-hand the local village leaders, victims, lawyers, journalists, government officials to unearth what had happened during the Muzzafarnagar riots of 2013. A series of incidents had led to simmering tension between the Muslims and the Jats. However, later, the killing of one Muslim boy, and the lynching of two Hindu boys by a mob is what lead to uncontrollable anger — or maybe it was controlled in a way that it happens without tipping off larger warnings in the system. Apparently, the powers that be of U.P. at that time – Samajwadi Party — didn’t pay much heed to the complaints of Muslims before the riots. And after the riots, partially awarded compensation to favour their vote bank, the Muslims. Throught twists and turns of the Indian ‘system’, some got the money, albeit partially after paying bribes; whereas others never got what they should have.

There can be no happy endings coming out of a religious riot. There are no winners. As heartless as it sounds, some of the Jats complain to Sacco that earlier their farm laborers were Muslims from their own village who would work for 200 rupees per day — but with them being gone, they are forced to procure laborers from outside their villages at a much higher rate! Sacco also explores how the divisive lines between the Jats and Muslims are not just religious, but even of class — Jats being the land-owners and Muslim workers being their ‘servants’. The same divisions however do not exist in some of the villages where Muslims of Pathan ancestry reside and they are untouched by the riots — seemingly due to their valour and the reluctance of Jats to take on them. Sacco traces the divide of Hindu-Muslims back to the Partition of 1947, which is good that at least he cares to go back in history; but religious riots used to occur even in pre-independence India. He makes no effort to go back that far. He seems to have concluded that there were no religious riots or differences before the partition.

It is a decent book to inform one’s self of how the ‘boiling of the frog’ took place in 2013 with a nearly-balanced narrative; but isn’t authoritative or scholarly in any sense. Maybe that’s a bit too much to expect from a comic book. It is good enough to win awards and for podcasts. And surely good enough to be spoken about praisingly at literature fests. When attention spans have become extinct, who cares about objectivity.

Thinking abt #Sacco & #Vanzetti, sentenced on this day in 1927

#NicolaSacco & #BartolomeoVanzetti were #Italian immigrants & anarchists, controversially accusd o murdering #AlessandroBerardelli & #FrederickParmenter, a guard & a paymaster, during April 15, 1920, armed robbery of #SlaterAndMorrillShoeCompany & executed 7 yrs later via electric chair @ #CharlestownStatePrison. Most historians consider their conviction unfair due 2 #prejudice agnst #immigrants & radicals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti

#OTD (Oct 23) in 1926, a #Massachusetts judge ignores the confession of #Morelli gangster Celestino Madeiros and denies a new trial motion for convicted killers Nicola #Sacco and Bartolomeo #Vanzetti.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Oct 20) in 1967, Filippo 'Johnny #Rosselli' #Sacco is indicted for failure to register as an alien.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

[riceviamo e diffondiamo]
i quattro giorni di incontri contro ogni #gabbia si avvicinano!
dalla mattina di #giovedì 11 vi aspettiamo a #Bedero #Valcuvia, il #paese è piccolo e noi facili da trovare :)
la #zona è #verde e montuosa, perciò chiediamo un minimo di attenzione alla #natura che ci circonda nell'attraversare questo spazio!

la presentazione di "carte, forbici, sassi" inizierà #venerdì 12 alle 15. seguirà un momento di discussione separata fra #donne , #lesbiche , persone #trans e non binarie.

il cibo che forniremo sarà #vegano ! se avete allergie o intolleranze fateci sapere via email. altri rifornimenti sono benvenutissimi.
non avremo #alcol : se ne vuoi usare, porta il tuo!

in #casa abbiamo qualche posto nelle nostre stanze e un piano a uso comune pieno di materassi, più lo spazio per le #tende in #giardino !
consigliamo di portare materassino e #sacco a pelo se non sono un peso, se invece lo fossero abbiamo sacchi a pelo materassi materassini e piumoni per quasi tuttx

la sera fa fresco! venite ben vestitx :)

abbracci ribelli, a presto! #ACAB

‪Vor fast 100 Jahren, am 23. August 1927, wurden Nicola #Sacco und Bartolomeo #Vanzetti, zwei in Amerika lebende, italienische Anarchisten, von einem kapitalistischen und faschistischen System verurteilt, hingerichtet.

100 Jahre und wir haben #Faschismus und #Kapitalismus noch nicht überwunden!