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Patient dies from brain-eating amoeba after swimming in South Carolina waters

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The person in South Carolina contracted the infection from he Naegleria fowleri amoeba, commonly known as a brain-eating amoeba, after swimming in Lake Murray outside of Columbia, the state capital, according to the state Department of Public Health.

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