The teenage boy’s family says he is a Brain-eating amoeba After a vacation at a North Florida campground last month, reports from local TV station WJXT. Tenor Lake Wall, a 13-year-old from Palatka, Florida, was on vacation, including a water park and a lake, before his parents told him he had suddenly fallen ill after days.
“He was just someone you always wanted to be around,” said Travis W. Ley, the boy’s father. His mother said the teenager was very active and loved the outdoors. Early symptoms of wall cramps include nausea, vomiting, stiff neck and headache.
Wall’s parents took him to Gainesville Hospital in Florida, where doctors put the teenager on a ventilator and gave the family a terrible diagnosis. “They said, ‘He has the parasite Ameba and he has no cure,'” his father told the station. Wall was stripped of life support on August 2 after showing no brain activity.
Wall’s parents hope their tragic story informs other families of the dangers Potentially fatal infection. “So parents are aware, maybe they weren’t thinking about it because I can tell you we weren’t,” Travis and Wall Lay said. “We grew up swimming in lakes and creeks and things like that.”
The CDC says Nigeria Fowleri – otherwise known as “brain-eating amoeba” – can cause an infection in the brain called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. Amiabas are commonly found in freshwater, such as lakes, rivers and streams.
The CDC warns that if contaminated water enters a person’s nose and brain, infection can occur. Symptoms begin with severe frontal headache, fever, nausea, and vomiting; Symptoms can then progress to stiff neck, seizures, altered mental state, hallucinations and coma.
Signs of infection usually begin a few days after swimming or other nasal exposure to contaminated water. People die within one to 18 days of the onset of symptoms. However, the CDC says that swallowing contaminated water does not infect people.
The Wall family told WJXT that they wanted to keep warning signs informing others about the dangers of swimming in hot water during the summer. The Val family said they did not identify the campground, as authorities have not yet identified Val Wall’s illness at the location.
“People need to wake up from July to late September, with hot water, that this amoeba, it could come over your nose. It could be diving. It could be things like swimming, water sports, skiing,” Travis Wall said. Explained.
According to the CDC, Nigeria fowler infection is rare. Between 2009 and 2018, U.S. 34 infections have been reported in, in most cases, CDC. Of note, people became infected in recreational water, while those infected after nasal irrigation using three contaminated tap water. One person was infected with contaminated tap water used on a slip-n-slide in the backyard.
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