![]() Although the risk is low, recreational water users should always assume there is a risk when they enter warm fresh water. Symptoms of Naegleria fowleri infection start with severe headache, fever, nausea and vomiting and progress to stiff neck, seizures, and coma that can lead to death.īecause Naegleria fowleri occurs naturally in the environment there is no means to eliminate the ameba from fresh bodies of water. The ameba infects people by entering the body through the nose and traveling to the brain. Naegleria fowleri lives in soil and warm fresh water, such as lakes, rivers, and hot springs. This ameba can cause a very serious rare infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) that destroys brain tissue and is almost always fatal. ![]() Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled living ameba that occurs naturally in the environment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notified DPBH that Naegleria fowleri was confirmed as the cause of the patient’s illness. ![]() The Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DPBH), is reporting the death of a Lincoln County youth from a Naegleria fowleri infection, also known as a brain-eating ameba.īased upon DPBH’s investigation, the individual may have been exposed at Ash Springs, a natural hot spring located on federal land in Lincoln County.
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