Epidemics

Several hundred years ago, scarlet fever epidemics killed thousands of people throughout the continent.

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Journalist and author Beppe Severgnini wrote this week a column for The New York Times, noting that most young and middle-aged Italians have no firsthand experience of war or epidemics, unlike their elders, who suffered greatly during the Second World War and after.

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The Italian government has turned to the use of quarantines, first used by Venice in the 14th century to protect itself from plague epidemics.

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Professor Crisanti said epidemics must be fought on three fronts: with hospitalization and intensive care, with discipline at home limiting all social contacts and with active surveillance, that is, identifying all those who are unaware they can transmit a disease.

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