{"id":9963,"date":"2025-07-23T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9963"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:49:41","slug":"patient-dies-of-brain-eating-amoeba-in-south-carolina-hospital-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/23\/patient-dies-of-brain-eating-amoeba-in-south-carolina-hospital-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient dies of brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina, hospital confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/patient-dies-brain-eating-amoeba-south-carolina\/\">CBS News<\/a> A patient in a South Carolina children&#8217;s hospital has died of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/texas-swimmer-dies-after-infection-caused-by-brain-eating-amoeba\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"brain-eating amoeba, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brain-eating amoeba<\/a>, according to the facility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a news briefing Tuesday, Prisma Health Children&#8217;s Hospital-Midlands confirmed the patient died of primary amebic meningoencephalitis, also known as PAM, a rare but often fatal brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri organism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hospital did not share any more details about the patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the South Carolina Department of Public Health, the patient&#8217;s exposure likely occurred at Lake Murray, though officials said they cannot be completely certain. The department said this is the first known case in the state since 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the briefing, Dr. Anna-Kathryn Burch, a pediatric infectious disease physician at the hospital, said these infections are &#8220;very devastating,&#8221; with the vast majority of cases in the United States ending in death.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News A patient in a South Carolina children&#8217;s hospital has died of a&nbsp;brain-eating amoeba, according to the facility.&nbsp; In a news briefing Tuesday, Prisma Health Children&#8217;s Hospital-Midlands confirmed the patient died of primary amebic meningoencephalitis, also known as PAM, a rare but often fatal brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri organism. The hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9964,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}