Megan Ebenroth, 17, has been identified in media reports as the Georgia resident who died in after becoming infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba.
The department said symptoms of such an infection usually start around day five, beginning with"severe headache, fever, nausea and vomiting and progress to stiff neck, seizures, and coma that can lead to death."
It concluded by saying that"[t]hough the risk of infection is low, recreational water users should always assume there is a risk when they enter warm fresh water" and that there have been five other cases of Naegleria fowleri reported in Georgia since 1962. She was the president of her school’s Beta Club and vice president of its Spanish Club, in addition to being a member of her high school’s tennis team, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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