A 10-month-old child died on Friday at Catania's Garibaldi hospital due to complications linked to measles, sources said.
The child was taken into hospital in Acireale but then transferred to Catania two days ago because of a deterioration in his respiratory and cardio-circulatory problems.
The outgoing centre-left government recently made 10 vaccinations mandatory for school admission following the resurgence of dangerous infectious diseases, including measles, amid growing vaccine skepticism.
Brescia prosecutors, meanwhile, have opened an investigation after a four-year-old girl died in a hospital in the northern city on Thursday due to an infection that started from a ear problem, sources said Friday.
An autopsy will be performed on Monday.
No one is under investigation at the moment.
Prosecutors are looking at the girl's recent medical history.
She was examined a month and a half ago by doctors at Manerbio hospital and then by medics at the Clinica Poliambulanza before being admitted on Saturday to Brescia's Spedali Civili hospital, where she died late on Thursday.
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