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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Boy Dies Of Infection From Microscopic Bug

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia health officials say a child has died of a brain infection from a microscopic bug that lives in stagnant water.

State epidemiologist Dr. Keri Hall declined to name the child, but the victim's mother identified him as 9-year-old Christian Alexander Strickland of Henrico County.

The boy died Aug. 5 and Hall received the autopsy results Friday confirming the cause of death as meningoencephalitis_ inflammation of the brain and its lining.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I saw this on House....bad way to go if the show is at all accurate. My prayers are with his family and loved ones. Poor kid.

Anonymous said...

Yesterday I saw a clip on TV about a young girl in Florida that died from the same thing. What is going on???