Toddler dies from rare brain-eating amoeba
A young boy has died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba infection, leaving his family devastated.
Between 1962 and 2022, only four out of 157 people infected by the amoeba in the U.S. survived, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows. Twenty-nine cases were reported between 2013 and 2022, the majority of cases being in boys under 14. CDC graphic showing number of case reports of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis caused by Naegleria fowleri in the United States, 1962–2022. PAM has a fatality rate of up to 97 percent.
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