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Girl 24, dies from brain-eating amoeba after swiming on Lake
California woman, 24, dies after becoming infected with a brain-eating amoeba following a swim in the Colorado River
- Kelsey McClain celebrated her 24th birthday on the Colorado River
- The California woman fell ill days after returning home from the trip
- Soon she could not speak, move and suffered a grand mal seizure
- She was pronounced brain dead and her organs were to be donated
- Her spinal fluid was checked and traces of a brain-eating amoeba appeared
- The amoeba entered her nose while she swam in the Colorado river
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A California woman lost her life after what appeared to be a harmless weekend enjoying her birthday at a fresh-water river.
Kelsey McClain, 24, passed away after a brain-eating amoeba left her brain dead after entering her nose while she was swimming in the Colorado River.
McClain was staying at Fisher's Landing, a resort along the Colorado River just hours away from her home in El Cajon, California.
She spent most of her 24th birthday enjoying activities in the fresh water and felt fine when she came home.
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Kelsey McClain (pictured), 24, passed away after a brain-eating amoeba left her brain dead following a trip to the Colorado River
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But days later she had a pounding headache and couldn't turn her head without excruciating pain.
Doctors were baffled by her symptoms and at first thought she had bacterial meningitis.
'It was apparent to everyone this was progressing,' McClain's mother Jennifer told ABC 15.
After rounds of treatments and antibiotics, McClain had a grand mal seizure.
When nurses checked her eyes, they were fully dilated and she was pronounced brain dead.
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McClain enjoying activities in the fresh water river and felt fine when she came home. Days later she fell ill
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There have been 133 recorded cases in 50 years and only three people survived, ABC 15 reported.
The only other preventative tactic is to avoid the water, but there is no known cure for the amoeba as it is so rare.
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Naegleria fowleri (pictured), the brain-eating amoeba, was discovered in McClain's spinal fluid after it was sent to a lab
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The resort now has signs warning people and plans to sell swimmers' nose clips, which the CDC says is one of the preventions for the amoeba.
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While swimming in the river (pictured) the brain-eating amoeba entered her body through her nose and soon she was brain dead
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz47Y9SGlqM
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