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PRO/EDR> Meningitis, meningococcal – Italy (10): fatal

Meningitis - Neisseria -- ItalyAs many as 59 cases of meningitis C have been registered in Tuscany from 2015 to today, authorities said Wednesday [28 Dec 2016] after a Rome elementary-school teacher became the latest victim of the virus [_Neisseria meningitidis_, the cause of meningococcal meningitis is a bacterium, not a virus]: 31 last year [2015] and 28 this year [2016].12 people have died of meningitis, 6 this year and 6 last, they said. To these must be added a death from meningitis B and the Read more [...]