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 ...
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...
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 g...
Brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri protozoans in trophozoite form. Getty Images The boy's death in Nevada comes after at least two other cases reported in 2022. In July, a Missouri resident was hospitalized with a Naegleria fowleri infection after swimming in Lake of Three ...
Brain-eating amoebas(Naegleria fowleri) are found in warm freshwater pools around the world, feeding on bacteria. If someone swims in one of these pools and gets water up their nose, the amoeba heads for the brain in search of a meal. Once there, it starts to destroy tissue by i...
Arlington, Texas, police said a boy died after being infected by a brain-eating amoeba found at a local splash pad,
Clinicians at AdventHealth have expanded their groundbreaking brain-eating amoeba test beyond Florida, accepting samples for testing from healthcare facilities across the US.
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...
Girl Killed by Brain-Eating Amoeba Loved the Water Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said the amoeba isn’t harmful unless it manages to travel to the brain through the nasal cavity. ...
A vaccine to protect against the brain-eating amoeba is under development, but still in the laboratory testing stage. Sources & Links