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What to know about the brain-eating amoeba that killed a boy swimming in a lake

Posted 7/29/25

A 12-year-old boy has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake over the July Fourth weekend. The amoeba enters the body through the nose and causes a fatal brain …

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