JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —

Missouri health officials confirm the resident who contracted a case of what is commonly known as the "brain-eating" amoeba has died.

That individual had been water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks before falling ill. Advertisement

Officials with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said the adult Missouri resident who was 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), died at a St. Louis-area hospital Tuesday.

Naegleria fowleri is more commonly known as a "brain-eating" amoeba and the "brain-eating" infection. This content is imported from Facebook. You may be able to find the same content in another

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