A 22-month-old baby boy died of meningitis in Florence's Meyer paediatric hospital Thursday.
A lab confirmed the baby died of meningitis C. Meanwhile a 34-year-old Peruvian woman was critical with the virus in Genoa.
There was another suspected meningitis death near Naples after an 18-year-old man from Agerola died Wednesday in a hospital at Castellammare di Stabia.
A 43-year-old man came down with meningitis in Crema Thursday but it is not believed to be the infectious type of the virulent disease.
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