Swimmer infected with a brain-eating amoeba after visiting Iowa beach
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A swimmer was infected with a brain-eating amoeba after visiting an Iowa beach
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Swimmer infected with a brain-eating amoeba after visiting Iowa beach
A Missouri resident is hospitalized in intensive care after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that likely happened after swimming in a southeastern Iowa lake. It is believed to be the first case discovered in Iowa.
By Alaa Elassar and Chuck Johnston, CNN 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…
A Missouri resident is in the intensive care unit with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, after swimming in Lake of Three Fires in Taylor County, Iowa
A Missouri resident is in the intensive care unit with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, after swimming in Lake of Three Fires in Taylor County, Iowa.
The beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park has been shut down after the person was diagnosed with the rare and usually fatal infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba.
