Nebraska child died of brain-eating amoeba, CDC confirms
Federal health officials confirmed Friday that a Nebraska child died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a river near Omaha.
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Federal health officials confirmed Friday that a Nebraska child died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a river near Omaha.
The CDC confirmed the presence of the naegleria fowleri amoeba in the child, who went swimming in the Elkhorn River near Omaha.
A child who had been swimming in a river in Nebraska over the weekend died from an illness carried on by a brain-eating amoeba, according to health officials on Friday.
A Nebraska child died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a river near Omaha. Health officials believe the child became infected while swimming in the Elkhorn River,
On Friday, federal health officials confirmed the presence of naegleria fowleri in a Nebraska child, who died from the rare, brain-eating amoeba.