13-year-old boy dies from brain-eating amoeba he contracted in Florida
The teenage boy's family claims he died of a brain-eating amoeba after vacationing at a camping site in North Florida last month. Thirteen-year-old Tanner Lake Wall from Tents (Florida) was at a recreation center that has a water park and a lake. According to his parents, a few days after his arrival, he suddenly fell ill. Writes about it CBS News.
The boy's mother said that the teenager was very active and loved nature. Wall's initial symptoms included nausea, vomiting, neck stiffness, and severe headaches.
The teen's parents took him to a hospital in Gainesville, Florida, where doctors hooked up the patient to a ventilator and gave the family a grim diagnosis.
“They said, ‘He has a parasitic amoeba and there is no cure,’” the father said.
Wall was disconnected from life support on August 2 after he stopped showing brain activity.
Wall's parents hope their tragic story will warn other families about the dangers of this deadly infection. “Maybe they didn’t think about it, because we didn’t think about it before,” Travis Wall said. “We grew up swimming in ponds and streams and things like that.”
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that Naegleria fowleri, known as the "brain-eating amoeba," can cause a brain infection called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. Amoebas are commonly found in fresh water (in lakes, rivers and springs).
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The CDC warns that if contaminated water gets into a person's nose and brain, it can cause infection. Symptoms begin with severe frontal pain, fever, nausea, and vomiting, and can progress to neck stiffness, seizures, mental status changes, hallucinations, and coma.
Signs of infection usually appear several days after bathing or other nose contact with contaminated water. People die within one or 18 days after symptoms appear. However, the CDC says it is impossible to get infected by ingesting contaminated water.
The Wall family wants to see warning signs installed to alert people to the dangers of swimming in warm water in summer.
“From July to the second half of September, when the water is very warm, people should be aware that this amoeba can affect them. This could be diving, swimming and other water sports,” explained Travis Wall.
Naegleria fowleri infections are rare, according to the CDC. Between 2009 and 2018, 34 infections were reported in the United States. In most cases, the CDC notes, people became infected from recreational water, and three were infected after nasal irrigation using contaminated tap water. One person was injured due to contaminated tap water used in their backyard.
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