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KANSAS CITY (AP) -- A Missouri resident who was infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that likely happened after swimming in a southwestern Iowa lake has died, health officials said Friday.
As relentless heat roasts the western, central and southern United States, the Northeast has largely escaped it this summer. It joins the Pacific Northwest among the regions with a limited need to run the air conditioner in recent weeks.
Life-threatening organism lives in freshwater bodies like lakes, ponds, hot springs, and rivers and enters body through nose
The CDC doesn't recommend testing lakes and streams for Naegleria fowleri, but warnings are possible if the amoeba's presence is confirmed.
Rare, but deadly. This organism is something you never want to come into contact with.