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The brain-eating amoeba was blamed for the death in June of an 18-year-old Ohio woman, who became infected after rafting at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A North Carolina man has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a manmade freshwater lake at a water park, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced ...
Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a species of the genus Naegleria. It belongs to the phylum Percolozoa and is classified as an amoeboflagellate excavate , [ 1 ] an organism capable of behaving as both an amoeba and a flagellate .
In 2010, in Arlington, Texas, a 7-year-old baseball star's life is cut short by excessive sweating, headaches, fevers, vomiting, anxiety, violent and uncontrollable seizures, and death from the rare naegleriasis after swimming in a lake where Naegleria fowleri was living.
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The amoeba can 'bore' into the intestinal wall, causing lesions and intestinal symptoms, and it may reach the bloodstream or peritoneal cavity. [8] From there, it can reach vital organs of the human body, usually the liver, but sometimes the lungs, brain, and spleen. [ 9 ]
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