According to the report published Wednesday by the ISS, four more cases were detected in the province of Lodi, in the northern region of Lombardy, where 36 autochthonous infections have already been recorded this year, making it the locality with the most complex situation.

Four others were located in the central region of Lazio, two of them in the province of Latina and the same number in the province of Rome, where 27 cases of the disease have been reported in different parts of the metropolitan city, in addition to one case in the coastal city of Anzio.

Marino Faccini, director of the Department of Hygiene and Health Prevention of Milan, referred in statements to the media to the globalization of diseases as a consequence of climate change, and pointed out that with dengue, “we must be aware that we have a tropical infection at home”.

For his part, Emanuele Nicastri, director of the Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Rome, pointed out that this year’s long summer in Italy “favored the active circulation of the tiger mosquito”, main transmitter of this disease”.

“Dengue cases will end when the period of circulation of that mosquito, vector of the infection, ends.

We can assume that this will happen, if temperatures drop, in the first weeks of November,” said Nicastri.

Since the beginning of 2023, 222 cases of dengue fever imported from other countries have also been reported, which, added to the endemic cases, total 288 infections in the whole country during the current year so far, adds the ISS in its note, where it clarifies that all the patients with this disease in Italy “have recovered or are improving”.

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