(NEXSTAR) – The family of a 12-year-old boy who died in South Carolina this month have confirmed his cause of death to be an infection associated with Naegleria fowleri, more commonly referred to as a ...
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Brain-eating amoebas may be turning into a growing global killer threat
Brain infections caused by so‑called brain‑eating amoebas have long been treated as medical curiosities, terrifying but ...
(NewsNation) — A 12-year-old boy has died in South Carolina after becoming infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba from swimming in a lake earlier this month. The boy passed away on July 18 after ...
The infection is called amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, and is also known as the "brain-eating" infection, according to the DHSS. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has ...
A pediatric death from a "brain-eating amoeba" has been reported in South Carolina, according to health officials. Prisma Health Richland Hospital in Columbia publicly confirmed the death on July 22, ...
The man had been waterskiing on the Lake of the Ozarks in the days before contracting the infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...
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