Brain-Eating Pathogen Resurfaces in Heartland State After 35 Years, Officials Issue Warning

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: “Brain-eating amoeba” comes to America’s heartland.
But it’s true, according to the Des Moines Register.
A Missouri resident went swimming at Iowa’s Lake of Three Fires State Park in Taylor County and contracted a very rare infection.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said on its website that the individual was infected by Naegleria fowleri, “a microscopic single-celled free-living amoeba that ca