Lillian Smart teria contraído a Naegleria fowleri ao nadar em um lago na Louisiana; doença é rara e apresenta taxa de mortalidade de 97%

Lillian Smart of Ruston infected with fatal Naegleria fowleri, likely after swimming in Lake Claiborne, health officials say

Doctors did all they could to stop the horror brain-eating amoeba from claiming little Lillian's life, but the infection became too great for her to overcome