Naegleria fowleri: New York woman dies after contracting amoeba in Maryland
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#1SFDW)
A Kingston, NY woman has reportedly died after contracting the "brain-eating amoeba", Naegleria fowleri, according to a Daily Freeman report Thursday. The deceased is identified as 19-year-old Kerry Stoutenburgh, a film student at CUNY Brooklyn College. According to the report, Stoutenburgh died Wednesday at HealthAlliance Hospital's Broadway Campus in Kingston with the diagnosis of "Naegleriasis," ["]