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3 Died Of A Rare Brain Infection Of The Amoeba In Water
ATLANTA (AP) - Two boys and a girl died this summer of a brain-eating amoeba officials living in the water of health.
This month, the rare infection killed a 16 year old girl in Florida who became ill after swimming, and a 9 year old boy in Virginia, who died a week after he went fishing the day camp. The child was wet with the first day of camp, his mother told the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
These themes are consistent with the previous cases, which are usually the children - often children - who are exposed to the bug while swimming or playing sports in hot water in ponds or lakes.
In the third case, in Louisiana, were unusual. He was a young man, whose death in June was traced to tap water, used a device called a neti pot. This is a small teapot-shaped container used to rinse the nose and sinuses with salt water to relieve allergies, colds and sinusitis.
Health officials later found the amoeba in the water system of the house. The problem is confined to the house, was not found in samples of tap water, said Dr. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana State Epidemiologist.
The young man who was only identified as being in his 20s and southern Louisiana, had not been swimming or had contact with surface water Ratard said.
He said that the only sterile distilled water or boiled water should be used neti pots.
The disease is extremely rare. About 120 cases in the United States - almost all the deaths - were reported by the amoeba were found in 1960, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About three deaths recorded each year on average. Last year there were four.
There is no evidence that cases are increasing, said Jonathan Yoder, who coordinates the surveillance of waterborne diseases to CDC.
The amoeba - Naegleria fowleri (nuh-uh GLEER-ee-eye-er-BIRD) - the nose is raised to their burrows in the skull and destroys brain tissue. Found in lakes and rivers warm during the hot summer months, mainly in the South.
It is a medical mystery why some people who bathe in water containing amoeba causes of mortality of the nervous system, while others do not, experts say.
But the cases that occur tend to be tragic, and there has been a single report of successful treatment.
"It's very difficult to treat. The majority of people die," said Ratard.
AP writer Stephanie Nano in New York contributed to this report.
This month, the rare infection killed a 16 year old girl in Florida who became ill after swimming, and a 9 year old boy in Virginia, who died a week after he went fishing the day camp. The child was wet with the first day of camp, his mother told the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
These themes are consistent with the previous cases, which are usually the children - often children - who are exposed to the bug while swimming or playing sports in hot water in ponds or lakes.
Health officials later found the amoeba in the water system of the house. The problem is confined to the house, was not found in samples of tap water, said Dr. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana State Epidemiologist.
He said that the only sterile distilled water or boiled water should be used neti pots.
The disease is extremely rare. About 120 cases in the United States - almost all the deaths - were reported by the amoeba were found in 1960, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About three deaths recorded each year on average. Last year there were four.
The amoeba - Naegleria fowleri (nuh-uh GLEER-ee-eye-er-BIRD) - the nose is raised to their burrows in the skull and destroys brain tissue. Found in lakes and rivers warm during the hot summer months, mainly in the South.
It is a medical mystery why some people who bathe in water containing amoeba causes of mortality of the nervous system, while others do not, experts say.
But the cases that occur tend to be tragic, and there has been a single report of successful treatment.
"It's very difficult to treat. The majority of people die," said Ratard.
AP writer Stephanie Nano in New York contributed to this report.
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