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Yucatán Tracks 242 Lake Visitors After Amoeba Death

Yucatán health authorities are monitoring 242 people who visited an artificial lake at a Mérida shopping mall where the amoeba Naegleria fowleri was confirmed

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A 33-year-old man suffered an infection with primary amoebian meningitis, which is fatal in 97% of cases. Authorities investigate the company responsible for the lake installed within a shopping center

·Madrid, Spain
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This is a 34-year-old wakeboard instructor, who worked on an artificial lake.

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Carlos, a wakeboard instructor in the artificial lake located in the Plaza la Isla Mérida, died after becoming infected with Naegleria fowleri, also known as the amoeba ‘comécerebros’. Family members and friends announced the death of Carlos after several days of hospitalization and criticized that, in case the company had taken the right measures, the amoeba “would not have been there”.“Carlos worked in Fornelos, as a wakeboard instructor in th…

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MÉRIDA.- Some 300 people were in contact with the lake of a well-known commercial square in Mérida, where the presence of the “ameba comebras” was confirmed, so they are under epidemiological surveillance, as confirmed by the Ministry of Health of Yucatán (SSY). It was the secretary of the SSY, Miguel Alberto Alcocer Gamboa, who specified [...]

Who is the person who died after being infected with the amoeba “comécerebros” in Mérida? Carlos, a 33-year-old wakeboard instructor, is the person who died in Mérida after contracting an infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri, a micro-organism popularly known as the amoeba “comécerebros”. The young man worked in the artificial lake of Plaza...

About 240 people are in epidemiological surveillance in Yucatán. The Secretariat of Health of the entity, reported that a group of 300 people were in contact with the lake of Plaza La Isla in Mérida, where the presence of the “ameba comebras” was confirmed. Miguel Alberto Alcocer, head of the unit, explained that [...] The article Por “ameba comebras”, there is epidemiological surveillance for 240 people, in Yucatán appeared first in: 88.9 News.

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El Financiero broke the news in Mexico on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
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