The patient may have been exposed to the amoeba while swimming at the Lake of Three Fires in Iowa, health officials said.
A Missouri resident who became infected with a rare, brain-eating amoeba possibly while swimming in an Iowa lake has died, health officials said.that it had a confirmed case of Naegleria fowleri, a rare but often deadly infection.
The Missouri patient was being treated in an intensive care unit for primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a life-threatening infection of the brain caused by the amoeba, health officials said. Out of 154 known cases of primary amebic meningoencephalitis reported in the U.S. from 1962 to 2021, only four people have survived,The infection was Missouri's first case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis since 1987. No additional suspected cases are being investigated in the state, the health department said.
Symptoms of primary amebic meningoencephalitis include severe headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, stiff neck and seizures.
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