Published: 30 April 2016
Author(s): Giorgio Berlot, Giulia Marcer, Francesca Zornada, Margarita Nieto Yabar, Ariella Tomasini, Fulvio Iscra
Section: Letter to the Editor
An abnormal peak of mortality attributed to an unusually persisting heat wave (HW) has been recorded throughout Italy by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) during the summer of 2015 [1].