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7th April 2015, 06:36 AM
Not a nice way to go.
Newlywed dies from rare brain-eating bug
A US mother is warning people of the deadly nature of brain-eating amoeba, after her newlywed daughter died after catching the rare bug which on holidays.
Californian woman Koral Reef had just married her high school sweetheart Corey Pier when she got sick.
The 20-year-old from Temulca Valley, is believed to have caught an amoeba called Balamuthia while she was swimming in Arizona’s Lake Havasu in May 2013, reports The Mirror.
It was not until after she married Mr Pier in July that year, that Koral started to suffer from headaches, a stiff neck and sensitivity to light and heat.
Her mother Cybil Meister told NBC 7 that health professionals believed Koral was having withdrawal symptoms from her birth control and suffering from a migraine.
“They gave her medicine and sent her home and then she progressively got worse," Ms Meister said.
By September Koral was struggling to see and was taken to hospital where she had an MRI.
“They showed us the MRI and the amoeba, which they didn't know was an amoeba, but there was a mass covering the entire right side of her brain and partial of her left,” she said.
link (https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/world/a/27001728/newlywed-dies-after-contracting-rare-brain-eating-bug/)
Newlywed dies from rare brain-eating bug
A US mother is warning people of the deadly nature of brain-eating amoeba, after her newlywed daughter died after catching the rare bug which on holidays.
Californian woman Koral Reef had just married her high school sweetheart Corey Pier when she got sick.
The 20-year-old from Temulca Valley, is believed to have caught an amoeba called Balamuthia while she was swimming in Arizona’s Lake Havasu in May 2013, reports The Mirror.
It was not until after she married Mr Pier in July that year, that Koral started to suffer from headaches, a stiff neck and sensitivity to light and heat.
Her mother Cybil Meister told NBC 7 that health professionals believed Koral was having withdrawal symptoms from her birth control and suffering from a migraine.
“They gave her medicine and sent her home and then she progressively got worse," Ms Meister said.
By September Koral was struggling to see and was taken to hospital where she had an MRI.
“They showed us the MRI and the amoeba, which they didn't know was an amoeba, but there was a mass covering the entire right side of her brain and partial of her left,” she said.
link (https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/world/a/27001728/newlywed-dies-after-contracting-rare-brain-eating-bug/)