US EditionBrain-Eating Amoeba Alert: 11-Year-Old Dies After Rare Infection in Slovakia
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According to the competent authorities, the investigations have not yet been completed and several pools at the spa will remain closed.
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.
It is not possible to become infected with the deadly lachrymophlebitis (Naegleria fowleri) by swallowing contaminated water, and human-to-human transmission is also excluded. This was stated by parasitologist František Ondriska from the Department of Laboratory Investigation Methods in Health Care, Faculty of Health and Social Work, Trnava University in Trnava. The first case He pointed out that in the case of the deceased 11-year-old boy, this…
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