A 17-year-old Georgia girl has tragically become the third person this year to die from a brain-eating amoeba in the US.Megan Ebenroth, from Dearing, in McDuffie County near Augusta, died on July 22 just eleven days after swimming in a freshwater lake with friends.She was infected by a single-celled organism — called Naegleria fowleri — that can get up the nose of swimmers and travel along nerves to the brain.
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