CDC confirms brain eating parasite causes death of Indiana man
Posted: Sep 12, 2012 10:16 PM EST | Updated: Nov 6, 2014 10:19 AM EST
Tests confirm a parasite known as the "brain eating amoeba" caused the death of a Southwestern Indiana man.
An Indiana State Department of Health spokeswoman said Tuesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the death for the 30-year-old man.
He died three weeks after swimming in West Boggs Lake outside of Evansville.
