Teen Dies of Brain Eating Amoeba

On Tuesday it was reported that an 18-year-old Ohio woman died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba while swimming out of state. A representative with Westerville City Schools, where the woman attended school, told NBC station WCMH in Columbus that the woman contracted meningoencephalitis. The woman was not identified and the exact location where she went swimming was not specified. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the amoeba involved in the case usually enters the body through the nose, and inhabits freshwater. The CDC added that only 138 cases of this measure have been reported from 1962 to 2015 and only three people have survived.