Brain-eating amoeba: How do most infections occur?
Brain-eating amoeba: How do most infections occur?
(NEXSTAR) — Officials in Missouri have recently recorded the state’s first confirmed infection of Naegleria fowleri — or “brain-eating amoeba” — in a resident since 1987.
The patient was battling the infection in the intensive-care unit of a Missouri hospital since last week. On Friday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed the patient’s death.
The Missouri Department of…