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A 2-year-old boy in Nevada died from a rare brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba..
Tragedy struck this week as a 2-year-old boy lost his life to a rare and deadly infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba..
The DPBH disclosed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) verified Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as a brain-eating amoeba, as the culprit behind the boy's severe illness and subsequent demise...
Centers of Disease Control Prevention provides more information to this writing that it is rare brain infection that is caused by Naegleria fowleri and is usually fatal..
Naegleria fowleri is a free-living amoeba that can cause a rare and deadly brain infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), as noted by CDC...
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