{"id":109543,"date":"2020-07-05T10:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/rare-brain-eating-amoeba-infection-confirmed-in-florida-health-officials-say"},"modified":"2020-07-05T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T17:02:47","slug":"rare-brain-eating-amoeba-infection-confirmed-in-florida-health-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/rare-brain-eating-amoeba-infection-confirmed-in-florida-health-officials-say","title":{"rendered":"Rare brain-eating amoeba infection confirmed in Florida, health officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-brain-eating-amoeba-infection-confirmed-in-florida-health-officials-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A person in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/florida\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/infectious-disease\" target=\"_blank\">infected<\/a> with a rare and usually deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/medical-research\/rare-diseases\" target=\"_blank\">brain-eating amoeba<\/a>, according to health officials.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/disasters\/disaster-response\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Department of Health<\/a> announced Friday that one patient in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a> has been infected with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/brain-eating-amoeba-what-is-it-and-how-do-you-prevent-contracting-it\" target=\"_blank\">Naegleria fowleri<\/a>, a water-borne, microscopic single-celled amoeba that attacks the brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInfections can happen when contaminated water enters the body through the nose,\u201d the health department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person in Florida has been infected with a rare and usually deadly brain-eating amoeba, according to health officials. The Florida Department of Health announced Friday that one patient in Hillsborough County has been infected with Naegleria fowleri, a water-borne, microscopic single-celled amoeba that attacks the brain. \u201cInfections can happen when contaminated water enters the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}