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A swimmer was infected with a brain-eating amoeba after visiting an Iowa beach

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The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services has shut down the beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park in Taylor County. The person was diagnosed with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a rare and usually fatal infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba. It is believed to be the first case discovered in Iowa.

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A swimmer was infected with a brain-eating amoeba after visiting an Iowa beach

A beach in Iowa is closed after a rare life-threatening infection of the brain was confirmed in a visitor who recently went swimming there.

2 years ago·Canada

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Associated Press News

Missouri swimmer infected with amoeba, likely from Iowa swim

A Missouri resident is hospitalized in intensive care after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that likely happened after swimming in a southeastern Iowa lake. The Iowa Department of

2 years ago·United States

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CNN

A swimmer was infected with a brain-eating amoeba after visiting an Iowa beach

A beach in Iowa is closed after a rare life-threatening infection of the brain was confirmed in a visitor who recently went swimming there.

2 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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A swimmer was infected with a brain-eating amoeba after visiting an Iowa beach

By Alaa Elassar and Chuck Johnston, CNN A beach in Iowa is closed after a rare life-threatening infection of the brain was confirmed in a visitor who recently went swimming there. The beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park in Taylor County will be closed temporarily to swimmers, the Iowa Department of Public Health

2 years ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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New York Post

Iowa beach shut down after woman infected with brain-eating amoeba

State officials will conduct tests to determine if the lake was the source of the woman’s infection.

2 years ago·New York, United States

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CBS News

Missouri swimmer infected with rare brain-eating amoeba, likely from lake in Iowa

The beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park has been shut down after the person was diagnosed with the rare and usually fatal infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba.

2 years ago

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