Two-Year-Old Nevada Boy Dies From Brain-Eating Amoeba
According to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, a two-year-old boy died last week from a brain-eating amoeba infection. The Centers for Disease Control has confirmed the cause of death. State investigators believe the child, Woodrow Turner, may have been exposed to the amoeba at a natural hot spring in Lincoln County called Ash Springs. “Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled living amoeba that occurs naturally in the environment,” said the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health report. “This amoeba can cause a very serious, rare infection of the brain call...