Nine-year-old Christian Strickland died on August 5, a week after attending fishing camp. Health officials say it was meningitis caused by the Naegleria amoeba, which thrives in warm, stagnant water.
The nine-year-old Virginia boy, Christian Strickland, got infected with the dangerous freshwater amoeba and died on Aug. 5. Strickland died hardly a week after Courtney Nash, from Florida, succumbed to the same parasite after swimming in a local lake.
The boy, identified by family members as Christian Strickland, died Aug. 5. An autopsy found the death had been caused by primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, which occurs after the amoeba enters the brain.