A 10-year-old girl has died after struggling for more than a week with brain-eating amoebas, which she sustained while swimming in the Barzos River near Waco, Texas. According to her family.
The girl became amoeba after spending the May Day holiday with her family and swimming in the river Barzos, where she began to feel strange symptoms such as headaches, fever and hallucinations.
According to the CNN website, the child was immediately transferred to the pediatric center in Fort Worth, on September 8, which discovered the presence of amoeba in the form of a single-celled organism inside the child's body, an organism often found in fresh and warm water as water. Rivers and lakes.
Valley Mills Primary School, where Lily was a fifth-grader, confirmed her death on Monday on her Facebook account, saying, “We are deeply saddened by Lily's loss. Lily was an absolute blessing to our elementary school. Lily was a wonderful person and friend to everyone. "
"It was Lille and will continue to breathe life across the country," the school said.
Kim Brown, a spokeswoman for the hospital, said the child health care system declined to comment when asked about Lily's death because the hospital had not received parental consent to do so.
It is known that amoeba enters the body through the nose, moves to the brain and destroys brain tissue. It is a single-celled organism belonging to the protozoan family, which reproduces by bifurcation, has irregular forms, moves amoeba through its pseudopods, and feeds non-self-feeds on organic substances by placing its prey in a food gap. Then, the digestive enzymes that secrete them are excreted, and their waste is disposed of by means of a temporary anus. This hole disappears after the waste is completely expelled.
Amoebas live within the human body in a sympathetic or parasitic way and may cause serious and chronic diseases.
Between 2009 and 2018, 34 cases were reported in the United States. Of the 145 known cases between 1962 and 2018, only four survived.