["Meningitis epidemic" in Italy in 2007].

: Immuno and chemo prophylaxis are at present valid tools for meningitidis control and prevention. Meningitidis is however a severe, not infrequent, disease, with a great emotional impact on the population, as shown by the reactions that followed the recent epidemic in Veneto. Public Health personnel must be prepared to give a rapid and correct information in order to allow everybody to act properly to maintain health.