(ANSA) - Rome, January 3 - Italy is currently seeing two new
meningitis cases every three days but there is no cause for
alarm, virologist Massimo Andreoni told ANSA Tuesday.
"It's a slight increase, which does not justidy alarmism,"
said Andreoni, the infectious diseases chief as Rome's Tor
Vergata hospital.
Andreoni said vaccination against the virulent disease had
proven to be "very effective".
2 meningitis cases every 3 days
Vaccination effective