US EditionBrain-Eating Amoeba Alert: 11-Year-Old Dies After Rare Infection in Slovakia
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Slovakia is investigating the death of an 11-year-old boy who died after being infected with a rare brain-destroying amoeba, Naegleria fowleri. Authorities suspect the boy contracted the parasite while swimming at a swimming pool, which has now been closed as a precaution while they await test results.
The parasite has not yet been detected in Slovakia.
The infection is rare but usually fatal.
An 11-year-old boy from western Slovakia died on Tuesday from purulent meningitis caused by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri, confirmed Dana Kamenická, a spokeswoman for the National Institute of Children's Diseases in Bratislava.
An 11-year-old boy died after being infected with the dreaded single-celled pathogen, the brain-eating amoeba, after swimming in Párkány.
Authorities are investigating the source of the infection at the Vadaš swimming pool in Štúrovo after the death of a young boy. The Public Health Authority has ordered the preventive closure of swimming pools throughout the area, awaiting the results of the analysis.
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