A rare brain-eating amoeba death has been recorded in Georgia. The unidentified victim is believed to have been infected when swimming in a freshwater lake or pond.Aug 1, 2023 Twitter Facebook Email Live Now CBS News 24/7 CBS News Baltimore ...
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...
Jeff Strickler is the chief operating officer at UNC Hospitals Hillsborough in Hillsborough, N.C., the assistant chief nursing officer for Behavioral Health at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the president of UNC Health Chatham in Siler City, N.C. He is also a member of ...
Arlington, Texas, police said a boy died after being infected by a brain-eating amoeba found at a local splash pad,The Associated Press reported. Authorities said that officials andTarrant County Public Health were notified earlier this month about a child being hospitalized with primary amebic men...
6-year-old Josiah died on Sept. 8 after being infected with a brain-eating amoeba. His death prompted@LakeJacksonTXto test the water. CDC preliminary results came back yesterday. 3 of 11 samples were positive: a downtown splash pad, his home's hose bib and a hydrant.#khou11https://t...
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Brain-eating amoeba infections are more common elsewhere. “In Pakistan, we have something like 20 deaths per year,” saysAbdul Mannan Baigat the Aga Khan University in Karachi. There is no standard treatment. Doctors in the US have recently started trying to kill the amoebas withmiltefo...
Clinicians at AdventHealth have expanded their groundbreaking brain-eating amoeba test beyond Florida, accepting samples for testing from healthcare facilities across the US.
The single-celled, microscopic Naegleria fowleri amoeba typically occurs in the Southern U.S., not the Rocky Mountain West. Nobody on record has fallen ill from the parasite in Wyoming. Cases of the so-called "brain-eating" amoeba are rare—just a handful in the U.S. every year—but ...
A child has died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a Texas splash pad he had visited, and a review discovered lapses in water-quality testing at several parks, officials said Monday. Officials in Arlington, located between Dallas and Fort Worth, said the...