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( Newsweek ) – An 8-year-old boy has died in Nebraska after reportedly becoming infected with the brain-eating amoeba. If confirmed, this would be the first case in the state ever recorded and suggests the Naegleria fowleri is expanding further north in the U.S.
The boy, Easton Gray, was likely exposed to the amoeba when he went swimming in the Elkhorn River near Valley—a community located west of Omaha—on August 8, according to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.
He began experiencing symptoms around five days after swimming in the river and was hospitalized two days after that, Douglas County health officials said. Tests are still being conducted to confirm that the amoeba was responsible for the child’s death.
N. fowleri can cause a disease known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), which results in severe brain damage and has a fatality rate of more than 97 percent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The amoeba is commonly found in warm freshwater, lakes, rivers, canals and ponds across the United States. But despite millions of exposures every year, infections—which usually occur when water containing the organism enters the body through the nose and it travels to the […]
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