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Boy, 12, dies of brain-eating amoeba

Infection From Brain-Eating Amoeba Kills Boy in South Carolina

A 12-year-old boy died last week in South Carolina from a rare brain-eating amoeba he contracted after swimming in a local reservoir, a lawyer for the boy’s family said in a statement on Thursday.

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Patient dies of brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina, hospital confirms

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12-year-old boy killed by brain-eating amoeba after swim in South Carolina lake

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What is Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba?

A 12-year-old boy has died in South Carolina after becoming infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba from swimming in a lake earlier this month.

Is Lake Murray safe from exposure to a brain-infecting amoeba?

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Pediatric patient in South Carolina dies from brain-eating amoeba after being in Lake Murray

A young person in South Carolina has died after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba at Lake Murray in the Columbia area.

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Patient dies from brain-eating amoeba after possible exposure in South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Richland Children’s Hospital in Columbia has confirmed that a patient treated at their facility has died from a brain-eating amoeba. According to the South Carolina Department of Health, they believe the patient was exposed to the rare, but deadly, organism at Lake Murray.