Brain-Eating Amoeba Discovered in Louisiana Plumbing
System
The two states have accounted for just about 50 percent of cases reported to the CDC given that
1962. Highs have pushed into the 90s for most of August.
Only 1 person has survived the infection...
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Brain-Eating Amoeba Discovered in Louisiana Plumbing
System
The two states have accounted for just about 50 percent of cases reported to the CDC given that
1962. Highs have pushed into the 90s for most of August.
Only 1 person has survived the infection this summer, 12-year-old Kali Hardig from Arkansas.
Jennifer Cope, health-related epidemiologist at the CDC, told AccuWeather.com.
A four-year-old boy from Mississippi became the fourth confirmed infection in 2013 of the amoeba,
Naegleria fowleri, last week, immediately after playing in water from the residence in St. She was
treated with an experimental German drug earlier this summer and was released from Arkansas
Children's Hospital Wednesday.
An investigation is underway to decide how a rare brain-consuming amoeba identified its way into a
plumbing method of a property in Louisiana, according to the Center for Illness Control.
The infection destroys brain tissue, resulting in brain swelling. Barnard Parish, La.
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