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Louisiana girl, 8, dies after contracting suspected brain-eating amoeba linked to lake swim

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Fews App Post Time 16h ago

Originally Published by: Uncontained brush fire in Nevada triggered by human activity continues to grow Video shows young female pilot, 23, swimming off after surviving emergency water landing Lindsay Clancy's three child victims forgotten amid crowds of support: mother of six Lillian Smart, an 8-year-old girl who health officials believe contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a northern Louisiana lake, died Saturday at a Ruston hospital from an infection linked to the pathogen. Lillian died one day after celebrating her eighth birthday. “The injuries to her brain were too severe for her little body to recover from,” the Smart family said in a statement posted Sunday morning on Facebook.

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