Overview
- Investigators suspect a December 23 meal with mushrooms, fish and mussels preceded nausea and abdominal pain in multiple family members.
- The 15-year-old daughter died Saturday night and her mother died Sunday morning at Cardarelli Hospital after fulminant hepatitis led to multiorgan failure, according to the ICU chief.
- Prosecutors have opened a manslaughter and medical-negligence inquiry, placing five Cardarelli clinicians under investigation and ordering autopsies.
- Police seized canned and fresh foods from the home for laboratory testing to identify any contaminant, and no definitive cause has been confirmed.
- The father remains in intensive care at Rome’s Spallanzani Hospital and an 18-year-old daughter is under precautionary monitoring as the town observes mourning.