A 10-year-old girl died after contracting amoeba amoeba

Texas River

The girl contracted the parasite after swimming in the Brazos River and Whitney Lake in Texas

A week later, he began to suffer headache and fever and he was diagnosed with a Amebic primitive meningoencephalitis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is a single-cell living organism that is commonly found in temperate freshwaters, such as lakes and rivers. .

Lily's health deteriorated rapidly and she was admitted to a local hospital and then transferred to the Cook Children's Hospital in the city of Fort Worth, where she eventually died.

The case caused a stir in the United States. The girl's family said Lily Mae He was now "in the arms of Jesus" and thanked all those who wrote them.

Lily Mae Before

Lily Mae Avant died after contracting an amoeba "comecerebro"

"The words are not enough to express how upset the family was last week, their love and support flooded us and we are incredibly proud of the number of lives our sweet and daring Lily Mae has had," she said. they said, according to which KWTX local media said the family.

Naegleria Fowleri lives in freshwater and warm water where it consumes bacteria in sediments. Most of the cases studied occurred in the southern states of the United States, including Texas and Florida.

When the sediments of a lake are interrupted, the amoeba is agitated in the water. As a result, swimmers are exposed to the possibility of inhaling the parasite through the nose, where it invades the olfactory nerves and migrates to the brain. This is where it causes a dangerous condition called: amoebic primitive meningoencephalitis.