a few days
A young swimmer, the 19-year-old Kerry Stoutenburgh passed away after the attack with a rare parasite a few days after the summer holidays spent with her family and her boyfriend last August.
As stated in the publication of the Sun, the deadly amoeba got into the blood of the unfortunate girl and referred to as the “amoeba brain-eating”. Experts say that usually enters through the nose and then it moves to the brain. Usually the infection that causes it is lethal in just a few days after symptoms appear. “It is a destructive type of infection, leading to death and rather quickly,” said a doctor who dealt with the incident.
The dad of the girl reported that the amoeba entered probably in the system of his daughter, on 20 August, when she swam in a stream with warm waters. The teenager was admitted to the hospital a week later with symptoms that included vomiting and persistent headaches. The 19-year-old from New York, I received some treatment and was sent home, but returned to the hospital when her condition deteriorated. Initially the doctors thought it was meningitis but they were surprised when the results were negative.
According to experts, the rare, this parasite causes a disease called “primary αμοιβική meningoencephalitis, a brain infection that leads to the destruction of brain tissue. Finally, the 19-year-old who was offended, she died on the 31st of August.
The mortality rate from the disease is more than 97% according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only three of the 138 known infected people from the USA have been preserved between the years 1962 and 2015.
OVERWHELMING: Teenage swimmer died of “amoeba that eats the brain” [photos]
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