A Georgia resident has died from Naegleria fowleri infection a rare infection which destroys brain tissue causing brain swelling and usually death . The individual was likely infected while swimming in a freshwater lake or pond in Georgia . Only four out of people in the United States survived a braineating amoeba infection according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Earlier this month Nevada officials said a yearold boy died from a brain infection likely contracted at a natural hot spring . Florida officials said in February a resident died from the amooba after a sinus rinse with tap water in February Florida . In February Florida officials . said a resident . died after a . resident died . from a . sinus . rinse with a . tap water . The infection is treated with a combination of drugs including the antibiotic azithromycin the antifungal fluconazole the antimicrobial drug miltefosine and the corticosteroid dexamethasone and the anti-infectious drug miltosine . and the infection is not found in salt water properly treated drinking water or swimming pools or in salt-treated drinking water in Georgia since the release said there have been five other cases reported in Georgia since the . release said in the release had been reported in the past month . There have been 5 other cases of Naeglaria f Fowleri infection there have not been cases of this type of bacteria . The amoegleri infection. The infection has not been found in freshwater lakes and it has been found to be in salt and it is not in salt Water in the state of Georgia since it has never been diagnosed in salt. It has been identified in salt waters or in a salt-
Georgia resident dies from rare brain-eating amoeba, health officials say .
