While that doesn't sound like much, the recent batch of deaths related to the amoeba could be cause for concern. In July, a 2-year-old boy was ruled by theNevada Division of Public and Behavioral Healthto have died from the brain-eating amoeba following a visit to a hot spring. Anothe...
The boy began to develop symptoms of an uncommon illness caused caused by Naegleria fowleri, an organism commonly known as a "brain-eating" amoeba because it attacks and destroys brain tissue, about one week after visiting Lake Mead, officials said....