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8-year-old girl dies from brain-eating amoeba infection in Louisiana

CBS News · August 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM

Lillian Smart, 8, has died after being infected by an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba that is found in warm freshwater, her family said.

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