A person in Florida has been infected with a rare and usually deadly brain-eating amoeba, according to health officials.
The Florida Department of Health announced Friday that one patient in Hillsborough County has been infected with Naegleria fowleri, a water-borne, microscopic single-celled amoeba that attacks the brain.
“Infections can happen when contaminated water enters the body through the nose,” the health department said.
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