Boy dies after contaminated cheese left him in vegetative state for nine years

Mattia Maestri, 13, died after eating raw-milk cheese contaminated with E. coli bacteria in June 2017, leaving him in a permanent vegetative state

Mattia Maestri fell into a permanent vegetative state aged just four after eating cheese contaminated with the deadly bacteria E.Coli - he has now died nine years later

A 13-YEAR-old boy has died after spending nine years in a coma caused by contaminated cheese. Mattia Maestri, from Italy, was hospitalised in 2017 aged just four after eating a single piece of raw milk cheese. Officials later discovered that the cheese was contaminated with shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC), a rare s