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USA: 'Extremely rare' brain-eating bacteria killed boy.

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USA: ‘Extremely rare’ brain-eating bacteria killed boy.

An eight-year-old boy from South Carolina passed away
this week after contracting an extremely rare brain infection, according
to the Department of Health and Environmental Control, the Daily Mail
newspaper reported Friday.

Health officials said the victim, identified on a Facebook page created
in his honor as Blake Driggers, of Sumter County, was exposed to a
deadly organism called Naegleria fowleri, the report said.

“While this organism is present in many warm water lakes, rivers and
streams in the South, infection in humans is extremely rare,” DHEC
Director Catherine Templeton told WBTV. “Naegleria fowleri almost always
results in death.”

Because the symptoms are very similar to bacterial meningitis, PAM may
not even be considered in the diagnosis, according to the newspaper
published in Britain.

Family friends said Driggers began complaining of a fever and headaches after a trip to the beach last weekend.

Mark Christmas, who sings in the church choir with Blake’s father, said
initially he and others felt that the boy may have simply gotten too
much sun.

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