North Carolina teen dies after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba

The teen's death comes less than a month after an 8-year-old girl in Louisiana died from the same type of brain-eating amoeba.

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The teen’s death comes less than a month after an 8-year-old girl in Louisiana died from the same type of brain-eating amoeba.

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