Health Ministry official says 'everyone will decide what they want to do,' with area expecting influx of visitors over holidays; no wave of hotel cancellations recorded after boy hospitalized

Nine-year-old hospitalized in intensive care unit as Health Ministry identifies infection caused by rare, potentially fatal Naegleria fowleri

The boy was hospitalized with swelling in his brain and was subsequently sedated and ventilated in intensive care at Rambam Hospital. A Kinneret swim event was postponed following…