Health: Freshwater Swimming Warning
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A warning for people who swim in lakes and rivers, especially while vacationing in the south. A deadly, brain eating amoeba, called Naegleria fowleri, may be lurking in those waters. 3 On Your Side Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl has more.
This amoeba is a parasite that lives in fresh water and can infect a persons brain. It’s rare, striking only about 117 people in the last 50 years. But this month it’s taken two lives.
The amoeba infection killed 9-year-old Christian Strickland. A week after going to a fishing camp near his Richmond, Virginia home.
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