A 2-year-old boy died on July 19 after becoming infected with a rare amoeba known to damage the brain, according to his family. The toddler reportedly contracted the condition while swimming in a natural hot spring in Nevada.
Woodrow Bundy’s family said in a statement on social media that the child started experiencing “flu-like symptoms” last week. His parents decided to take him to a hospital after they noticed that their son began showing “signs of deeper distress.”
At first, doctors thought that Woodrow had meningitis, but health care professionals ultimately worked out that the boy was infected by Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba that causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a disease of the central nervous system that is almost always fatal….