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New Delhi, September 22, 2019:
A Texas girl died after battling a brain-eating Naegleria fowleri amoeba for more than a week. Lily Mae Avant, 10, swam in the Brazos River and Lake Whitney near Waco over Labor Day weekend, CNN affiliate KWTX reported. After being flown to Cook Children’s Health Care System in Fort Worth on September 8, a spinal tap found she had contracted Naegleria fowleri, a single-cell living organism commonly found in warm freshwater, like lakes and rivers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Naegleria fowleri amoeba is known to enter the body through the nose, travels to the brain and destroys brain tissue. Between 2009 and 2018, 34 cases of the Naegleria fowleri infection were reported in the US. And of the 145 known cases between 1962 and 2018, only four people have survived. [CNN]
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