Asbury Park Press

A 29-year-old New Jersey man died earlier this month from "a brain-eating amoeba" that he contracted after swimming in a wave pool, according to reports.

Fabrizio Stabile, 29, of Ventnor died just one day after he was diagnosed with the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri.

Stabile had been at a wave pool at BSR Cable Park, a Waco resort, and subsequently suffered from a headache on Sept. 16, according to his GoFundMe page.

Several days later, Sept. 21, he was pronounced dead at Atlantic City Medical Center, according to a report.

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Naegleria fowleri, known as the “brain-eating amoeba,” usually infects people when contaminated water enters the body through the nose, according to the CDC.

Once the parasite enters the nose, it travels to the brain where it can cause a fatal infection known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis. Symptoms start to show one to nine days after swimming, and infected people typically die one to 18 days after symptoms start, according to the CDC.

How brain-eating amoeba infection usually occurs

Infection typically occurs when people go swimming or diving in warm freshwater places, like lakes and rivers, or in rare instances, when contaminated water from other sources (such as inadequately chlorinated swimming pool water or heated and contaminated tap water) enters the nose, according to the CDC.

Between 2008 and 2017, 34 infections were reported in the U.S. Of those cases:

30 people were infected by recreational water,

three people were infected after performing nasal irrigation using contaminated tap water,

and one person was infected by contaminated tap water used on a backyard water toy, according to the CDC.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is testing at BSR Cable Park's Surf Resort, where Stabile worked, in Waco, Texas, for the amoeba, according to a report.

A Waco-McLennan County Public Health District spokesperson said the park voluntarily closed Friday pending the investigation, according to one report.