Overview
- Sara Di Vita, 15, and her mother, Antonella Di Ielsi, 50, died at Cardarelli Hospital in Campobasso after rapidly worsening symptoms following Christmas Eve seafood.
- Investigative sources say the family twice sought emergency care in recent days and was discharged with a diagnosis of food poisoning before the final hospitalization.
- Prosecutors have ordered autopsies and the Campobasso Squadra Mobile, led by Marco Graziano, is reviewing hospital access records and interviewing witnesses.
- Medical staff cite fulminant hepatitis linked to suspected foodborne intoxication as a working hypothesis, pending toxicology and pathology results.
- The hospital’s ICU chief reported a rare, rapid collapse into liver failure and multiorgan dysfunction; the father, Gianni Di Vita, remains hospitalized in intensive care and may be transferred to Rome.