A 10-year-old girl has died of an "amoeba amebarebro" – News

A 10-year-old girl died in an American hospital after contracting a rare type of amoeba who was feeding on her brain in a river, her family said Monday in a statement.

Lily Mae Avant swam in a river and a lake in Texas during the long weekend of Labor Day, celebrated in the United States in early September. Then he had a headache and a fever the following weekend.

His health deteriorated rapidly and he was admitted to a local hospital and then transferred to the Cook Children's Hospital, in the city of Fort Worth.

The girl's struggle to survive has attracted support across the United States and around the world.

In a statement published in Facebook, the family said that Lily Mae was "in the arms of Jesus".

The Texas Department of Health Services told local media that the girl was suffering from a primary amoeba meningoencephalitis, a brain infection caused by an amoeba Naegleria fowleri, known as "amoeba comecerebro".

The first symptoms of infection usually appear a week after the entry of the amoeba into the body through the nostrils.

"The amoeba is present in the fresh waters of Texas and other parts of the United States," local spokesman Chris Van Deusen told reporters. extremely rare.