An Iowa beach has been closed after a swimmer visiting from another state was infected with a life-threatening, brain-eating amoeba.
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The beach at Lake of Three Fires in Taylor County was temporarily shuttered for swimming Friday as a “precautionary response” after the rare brain infection caused by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri was reported in the visitor from Missouri, theThe patient was ill with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, and was being treated in the intensive care unit,“It is not contagious, but can be life threatening,” the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said in a tweet.
"It’s strongly believed by public health experts that the lake is a likely source, but we are not limiting the investigation to that source because it hasn’t been confirmed. Additional public water sources in Missouri are being tested," the
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