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Nationwide, there have only been 167 cases of Naegleria fowleri in the past 62 years — but only four of those survived, ...
A patient at Prisma Health Children's Hospital Midlands in South Carolina died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, a ...
A child in South Carolina has died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as brain-eating amoeba.
A Columbia family is mourning the loss of their young son, who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba from ...
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Jaysen Carr, a Hand Middle School student, died July 18 after being exposed to Naegleria fowleri while swimming in Lake Murray in Columbia, S.C.
A child has died from a brain-eating amoeba at Prisma Health Children's Hospital – Midlands in South Carolina.
Dr. Anna-Kathryn Burch, a pediatric infectious disease physician in South Carolina, said infections with the Naegleria fowleri amoeba are "very devastating." ...
The amoeba can be found in warm freshwater but occasionally has been detected in tap water. The South Carolina health agency ...
On Tuesday, officials confirmed that a pediatric patient in Columbia, South Carolina, has died from Naegleria fowleri, also ...