Hannah Collins, was pronounced dead Friday, just three days after local health authorities said a Naegleria fowleri infection gotten from infected water.
Officials didn’t identify Hannah, but said they believed the patient had been exposed to the single-celled organism while swimming in the Edisto River in Charleston,South Carolina.
Hannah’s father told thr media that he’d taken his family to the river for a day of swimming, where Hannah repeatedly jumped into the river from a rope swing.
Present in warm, fresh water, the deadly amoeba can cause the unusually fatal amebic meningoencephalitis when it enters the body through the nose.
The father, Jeff Collins, was also tragically unable to be at Hannah’s side in her final days after he said he was arrested and held behind bars for unpaid child support.
However, Collins was taken by jail personnel to the hospital on Thursday. She died the next night.
The site is currently marked as a biohazard zone till further notice
