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Boy's Condition Critical After Contracting Brain-Eating Amoeba in Sea of Galilee
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A nine-year-old boy is in critical condition in a Haifa hospital after contracting a brain-eating amoeba from swimming in the Sea of Galilee. Health officials have issued warnings about swimming in freshwater during warm weather.
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- Nine-year-old boy critically ill with brain-eating amoeba after swimming.
- He contracted the infection at Kursi Beach in the Sea of Galilee.
- The boy is hospitalized in intensive care, sedated and on a ventilator.
- Health officials have issued warnings about swimming in freshwater.
- The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, causes a rapidly progressing and often fatal brain infection.
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