A surfer from from Atlantic County in New Jersey has died from brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a wave pool of a resort in Central Texas.
Friends and family now mourn the death of Fabrizio Stabile, who died just a day after he was diagnosed with Naegleria Fowleri, colloquially known as the “brain-eating amoeba”.
According to the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Naegleria Fowleri is a rare infection that occurs when amoeba from contaminated water enters the nose and travels to the brain, where it destroys the brain tissue.
The infection, which has a fatality rate of 97 percent, commonly occurs when people go swimming or diving in warm freshwater places.
According to the GoFundMe page set up by Stabile’s loved ones, the 29-year-old dipped in the waters of the wave pool in BSR Surf Resort in Waco before he experienced severe headache while mowing his lawn on Sunday, Sept. 16.
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