Nevada boy, 2, dies of brain-eating amoeba after visiting hot spring
A 2-year-old boy from Nevada died this week of a Naegleria fowleri infection, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, state health officials and his mother said. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Naegleria fowleri be the cause of the child's illness, the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health said in a Press release Thursday. The boy, of Lincoln County, just north of the Las Vegas area, may have been exposed at Ash Springs, a natural hot spring in the county, he said.State health officials did not publicly identify the boy or immediately respond to a request…
