A 2-year-old US boy was killed by a brain-eating Amoeba. On July 19, a two-year-old kid in Nevada, United States, died from an infection with Naegleria fowleri, also known as the “brain-eating amoeba.”
According to the New York Post, Woodrow Bundy’s family believes the illness “infiltrated his body while playing in the water in Ash Springs.”
The boy’s mother took to Facebook to share the heartbreaking news. “Woodrow Turner Bundy returned victoriously to our father in Heaven at 2:56 am. He fought for 7 days.
The longest any person has survived on record is 3. I knew I had the strongest son in the world,” Ms Briana said.
She added, “He is my hero and I will forever be grateful to God for giving me the goodest baby boy on earth, and I am grateful to know I will have that boy in heaven someday.”
As a 2-year-old US boy killed by brain-eating Amoeba, according to a social media post by Bundy family friends, the boy’s parents first realized something was awry when their son began experiencing “flu-like symptoms” last week.
Ms. Briana rushed him to the hospital, where doctors initially suspected he had meningitis. They later determined he was infected with the lethal brain-eating amoeba that sparked worldwide worry earlier this year.
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In February 2023, it also took the life of a man in his fifties in the United States.
Ms. Briana said in a Facebook post two days before the tragedy that the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had refused to treat the two-year-old because he was “past the point of any survivor.” The health department has yet to reply to her complaints.
Naegleria fowleri is a species of amoeba (single-celled living organism) found in warm freshwater habitats such as lakes, rivers, and hot springs, according to the CDC. Because it can infect the brain when amoeba-containing water enters the nose, it is also known as the brain-eating amoeba. Although it is a rare disease, it is virtually always fatal.
When water-carrying Naegleria fowleri enters the nose, the amoeba migrates to the brain via the olfactory nerve and causes infection. It should be mentioned that if contaminated water does not go up the nose, people are not sick.
The sickness manifests itself one to twelve days following exposure to Naegleria-containing water. People die one to 18 days after symptoms start, according to the CDC. The amoeba can induce severe frontal headaches, fever, nausea, vomiting, stiff neck, seizures, hallucinations, and coma.
