A two-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba infection this week, according to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DPBH) and a Facebook post from the child's mother.According to the DPBH release, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that Naegleria fowleri, also known as a "brain-eating amoeba", was the cause of the boy's illness and corresponding death.State investigators believe the boy might have been exposed to the amoeba at Ash Springs, a natural hot spring on federal land in Lincoln County, the release said.
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