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Terror! The 14-year-old new star of track and field in the United States died of brain eating insect

According to US media reports, a 14-year-old boy in Houston, Texas, died after struggling with the disease for more than a week after a swim in a lake. This article is edited by the four seas anecdotes https://love.4hw.com.cn/qiwen/32990.html , please indicate the source of reprint, more wonderful please Baidu four seas anecdotes, and add our official wechat Q group to participate in the discussion.

Swimming is the best way to get rid of the heat in hot summer, the report said. However, a 14-year-old track and field player in Houston, Mike & bull; Riley, lost his life after playing in a common lake.

It is reported that more than half a month ago, Mike and his track and field team members went to Sam Houston State Park for a visit. During this period, he and his friends once went swimming in the lake. About a week later, Mike suddenly began to have a fever and headache. In a short day, he was unconscious. His family panicked and took him to the hospital immediately. Doctors quickly confirmed that Mike's symptoms were due to infection with the nemesis freundii, also known as the amoeba 'encephalovores'.

Mike's family believe it was the swimming in the lake that infected him with the deadly bacteria. After more than a week of struggling with the disease, the star of tomorrow, who has repeatedly defeated his rivals on the track and field, failed to survive. On August 30, Mike's family announced on Facebook that he had left the world forever.

The report points out that although the "brain eating insect" sounds terrible, it can enter the central nervous system through the nostrils, infect the brain and eventually cause brain death in the infected person. Although only 133 cases of brain eating insect infection have been recorded in the past 53 years, once infected, the pathogen is very lethal, and only three people have survived the infection.

The report also said that the pathogen is more common in freshwater lakes, rivers and ponds and will multiply in warm waters. To stay away from this deadly pathogen, doctors recommend not swimming in open freshwater waters in summer or late spring, or try to avoid nasal water when swimming.

In August of this year, the Louisiana water supply system was infected by the brain eating amoeba. The federal Centers for Disease Control and prevention advises people not to let water enter the nasal cavity when taking a bath and washing their face.

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