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A "healthy, vibrant and switched on" young Australian woman has been placed in a medically induced coma and evacuated from after suffering that her family believe were brought on as a result of contracting Julia Barresi, 19, lived with "health issues" as a child but her mother said she'd outgrown them and maintained a largely healthy lifestyle as a young adult. She was , unable to bounce back after several days. Earlier this month, Julia began suffering seizures and was rushed to hospital on the island, but was soon transferred to Australia for emergency treatment.

Julia's mother Jen said she had communications with her daughter on July 1 that immediately raised alarm bells. "Julia and I were communicating constantly and on Monday [and] she just didn’t seem good so I booked a flight to come over first thing Tuesday,” she told . "She’s a healthy, vibrant, switched on, beautiful human being.



She’s my best friend in the whole wide world. "She’s never had a seizure. She’s had health issues when she was younger but she’s perfectly healthy now.

" After Jen touched down in Bali and saw her daughter's condition, she made the call to transport her daughter to The Royal Melbourne Hospital. She was due to undergo an MRI on Monday. "Her beautiful friends rang me.

They called me and said, ‘she’s having seizures’ and I just said, ‘get her straight in the cab, don’t wait for an ambulance and get her straight to the hospital’," she said. Jen said she believed that th.

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