Woman dies after meningitis mistaken for headache in Rome

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 4 - A 27-year-old woman died last winter after meningitis was mistaken for a headache by ERs at two Rome hospitals, La Repubblica newspaper reported Monday.
    The woman, Valeria Fioravanti, died on January 10 after the ER at the Policlinico Hospital said her strong had pains were due to cephalea caused by a sudden movement while washing her hair and, seven days later, the emergency room at the San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital took her meningitis for lombo-sciatica.
    The doctors who made the mistaken diagnoses have been placed under investigation.
    Meningitis often proves deadly unless it is spotted quickly.
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