A beach in Iowa is closed after a rare life-threatening infection of the brain was confirmed in a visitor who recently went swimming there.
The beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park in Taylor County will be closed temporarily to swimmers, the Iowa Department of Public Health said Friday."The closure is a precautionary response to a confirmed infection of Naegleria fowleri in a Missouri resident with recent potential exposure while swimming at the beach," according to a release from the health department.
The health department is working with the CDC to test the lake water and"confirm the presence of Naegleria fowleri," which will take several days, the release said.No additional suspected cases of are currently being investigated in Missouri or Iowa, the agency said.Although rare, PAM is"devastating" and"usually fatal," according to the CDC."Among well-documented cases, there are only five known survivors in North America," the CDC said.
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