JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —

Health officials in Missouri say a resident has contracted a lab-confirmed case of what is commonly known as "brain-eating" amoeba, and the individual had been at the Lake of the Ozarks before falling ill.

Officials with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced an adult Missouri resident has been diagnosed with a lab-confirmed case of Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic single-celled free-living amoeba that can cause a rare, deadly infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM).

It is more commonly known as a "brain-eating" amoeba and the "brain-eating" infection.

The patient is currently in the intensive care unit of an undisclosed Missouri hospital receiving treatment for PAM.

Officials added that while the source of the patient's

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