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A n year from Texas died on 11 September due to a brain-eating amoeba that he contracted on a surface in which children slide in the water of the Don Misenheimer Public Park, located in Arlington. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there are no more registered cases.
On September 5 the child was admitted to the Cook Children’s Medical Center for primary amoebic meningoencephalitis , infection caused by amoeba Naegleria fowleri , according to a statement from the local health authorities.
The name and age of the minor were not disclosed to protect their identity and the privacy of the family members.