Is the Lake or Pond in Which You are Swimming or Training Safe?
A Minnesota boy died of a rare brain disease after swimming in Lily Lake in the town of Stillwater in 2012. The boy contracted primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a central nervous system disease caused by infection from the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri. But he was not the first child to die after swimming in Lily Lake.…
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