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  • Meningitis death of World Youth Day pilgrim prompts health alert

    Source: http://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/m...-alert/30798/1

    Meningitis death of World Youth Day pilgrim prompts health alert
    The Italian bishops' conference has issued an advisory to pilgrims, after a young Italian girl died of meningitis while she was returning home from World Youth Day in Poland.
    Aug 03, 2016

    ROME, ITALY: The Italian bishops' conference has issued an advisory to pilgrims, after a young Italian girl died of meningitis while she was returning home from World Youth Day in Poland.

    The Italian publication Corriere della Sera identifies the girl as Susanna Rufi, 19, who died Monday in Vienna, Austria, as she was returning home to Italy.

    ?She had been preparing for WYD for a year,? recounted Fr. Alessandro, the parish priest of her local Saint Polycarp parish in Rome, according to Corriere della Sera. ?She was a wonderful girl, very active in the parish,? he said, adding that she got good grades, and was active in the choir.

    Rufi had reported feeling ill on Sunday evening, after arriving in Vienna with some 50 young people from the parishes of Saint Polycarp and Our Lady of Good Counsel, reports the Italian agency...
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