A 50-year-old man died of
meningitis in a Rome hospital Monday. The Alatri native had a
non-contagious form of the disease. The hospital said the number
of deaths from meningitis was "stable". The man was rushed to
Rome's Umberto I hospital from a hospital in his native village
between Rome and Naples with a very high fever on New Year's
Eve. He is the latest in a string of meningitis deaths in Italy.
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