brain eating amoeba
Health officials say a child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in the Elkhorn River in eastern Nebraska on Sunday.
A Seattle woman died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after using a neti pot with unsterilized tap water.
The test results come a week after 18-year-old Lauren Seitz died from an amoeba she contracted at the park.
Lauren Seitz, 18, is remembered as a compassionate music lover.
