Asbury Park Press

VENTNOR CITY, N.J. — A 29-year-old New Jersey man died in New Jersey from "a brain-eating amoeba" that he is suspected of contracting after swimming in a Texas wave pool, according to the Waco (Texas) Tribune-Herald.

Fabrizio "Fab" Stabile, 29, of the Atlantic City-area beach community of Ventnor City died Sept. 21, just one day after he was diagnosed with the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, according to a GoFundMe page that aims to create the Fabrizio Stabile Foundation. Stabile had been at a wave pool at BSR Cable Park's Surf Resort in Waco, Texas, and subsequently suffered from a headache Sept. 16 that progressed to an inability to get out of bed or speak coherently.

He was hospitalized Sept. 17, but doctors at first thought he had bacterial meningitis, which delayed the proper treatment. Only four people have survived the

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Naegleria fowleri, known as the “brain-eating amoeba,” usually infects people when contaminated water, generally from lakes, rivers or streams, enters the body through the nose, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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.

In rare instances, inadequately chlorinated swimming pool water or heated and contaminated tap water can cause the infection when it enters the nose, CDC officials said.

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

30 people were infected by recreational water.

were infected by recreational water. Three people were infected after performing nasal irrigation using contaminated tap water.

were infected after performing nasal irrigation using contaminated tap water. One person was infected from contaminated tap water used on a backyard water toy.

BSR Cable Park's Surf Resort, where Stabile had worked, closed Friday to test for the amoeba, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported. The water park planned to stay closed pending results of the CDC investigation.

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