A brain-eating amoeba claimed the life of a13-year-old boy in Florida, according to multiple reports. The parents of Tanner Lake Wall told Florida news outlet News4Jax that their son contracted the amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, when he was swimming at a campground in North Florida near Tallahas...
Jose Alexander, MD, a clinical microbiologist and director of microbiology, virology, and immunology for AdventHealth Orlando, and his team have expanded access to their brain-eating amoeba test beyond Florida. “AdventHealth is accepting samples for testing from any hospital across ...
A person has been hospitalized after contracting abrain-eating amoebawhile swimming in Broward County, Florida, health officials say. The Florida Department of Health confirmed the infection Tuesday. Officials say the person's infection stems from Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic, single-cell amoeba c...
A Florida teenager is recovering after contracting primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, an often-deadlyinfectioncaused by thebrain-eating amoeba, naegleria fowleri. Sebastian DeLeon, 16, is only the fourth person to survive the infection in 50 years—and he did it with the help of a drug that’...
With all this in mind, I was a little bemused to hear of tabloid headlines (via@SophWarneson twitter) of the case of a Florida man who died after irrigating his nostrils. Apparently a rare brain-eating amoeba, which goes by the name ofNaegleria fowleri.This single-celled organism lives ...
Fort Meyers— A Florida teen is fighting to stay alive after, doctors say, a rare brain-eating amoeba got in through his nose and infected his brain. A member of Caleb Ziegelbauer's family said the 13-year-old went swimming at Port Charlotte Beach Park on July 1,according to CBS Miami...
Another 2023 death attributed to the brain-eating amoeba wasFlorida manwho was infected in February after rinsing his nose with tap water. How To Prevent Brain-Eating Amoeba From Entering Your Body The CDC has released tips on how to take precautions against contracting the deadly amoeba through...
A 9-year-old Virginia boy apparently contracted the amoeba at a fishing camp, where his mother said he was dunked; a 16-year-old Florida girl became ill after swimming; and it was announced that a young man in Louisiana had died in June after using infected tap water to irrigate his si...
Composed of a single cell, amoeba seem harmless enough: They look like playful critters waltzing under the spotlight of a microscope until they come upon a group of bacteria. Then, these previously innocuous amoeba suddenly morph into sinister blobs, eng
Earlier this month,the family of a teen boy said he diedfrom a brain-eating amoeba after vacationing at a North Florida campground in August.