{"id":289243,"date":"2026-08-03T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=289243"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:02:44","slug":"italian-boy-dies-after-9-years-in-coma-caused-by-contaminated-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/289243\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian boy dies after 9 years in coma caused by contaminated cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A 13-year-old Italian boy named Mattia has died after spending nine years in a coma following severe food poisoning caused by contaminated cheese, his father said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in 2017 in Coredo, a town in Italy&rsquo;s Trentino region. The four-year-old boy had eaten cheese made from raw milk contaminated with Escherichia coli bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after consuming the cheese, Mattia developed severe abdominal pain and his condition rapidly worsened.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors later diagnosed him with hemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious condition that caused brain damage, paralysis, blindness, and severe epilepsy. He fell into a coma and never regained consciousness.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 13-year-old Italian boy named Mattia has died after spending nine years in a coma following severe food poisoning caused by contaminated cheese, his father said. The incident occurred in 2017 in Coredo, a town in Italy&rsquo;s Trentino region. The four-year-old boy had eaten cheese made from raw milk contaminated with Escherichia coli bacteria. Shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":289225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289250,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289243\/revisions\/289250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}