Man killed by rare brain-eating amoeba

Published July 26, 2019 12:22pm ET



A North Carolina man visited a water park and left with a deadly brain-eating amoeba.

The man, whose identity has not been confirmed, became ill after swimming in a manmade lake at Fantasy Lake Water Park in Hope Mill on July 12. The Centers for Disease Control said that the illness and subsequent death was caused by Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba responsible for killing just 145 people in the U.S. from 1962 to 2018.

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