Missouri Patient with 'Brain-Eating' Infection Dies Less Than 1 Week Later

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A Missouri man who became infected with a brain-eating amoeba has died less than one week after public health officials announced that he had been infected

The man had been waterskiing on the Lake of the Ozarks in the days before contracting the infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM)

The CDC reports that the infection is "almost always fatal"

A Missouri man who became infected with a brain-eating amoeba has died less than one week after officials announced that he had been infected.

On Wednesday, Aug. 20, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) announced in a press release that the man died on Tuesday at a St. Louis-area hospital.

"We extend our deepest condolences to the loved ones of the patient," the agency wrote.

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