In Missouri, a swimmer died of a brain-eating amoeba infection. This information was posted on the website. ABC News July 17th.
The publication, citing a health official, said that the man could have become infected, presumably while swimming in Lake Iowa on July 7.
The victim was urgently hospitalized, he was treated for amoebic meningoencephalitis, a deadly disease caused by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri.
The next day, the state health department announced the closure of the beach.
Among the symptoms of infection, doctors note a severe headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, stiffness of the neck muscles and convulsions.
Similar cases occurred in the United States from 1962 to 2021 154 times, of which only four people survived.
A similar case occurred in September 2020, when in the US state of Texas, during an investigation into the death of a six-year-old boy, a brain-eating amoeba was found in tap water.
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