Megan Ebenroth, 17, died brain-eating amoeba.

A Georgia student died before her senior year of high school due to a rare brain-eating amoeba.

Megan Ebenroth, 17, died on July 22 after contacting the amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri while swimming in a freshwater lake in Georgia. Her

PICTURED: Megan Ebenroth, straight-A student, 17, who died from brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a lake with friends in Georgia

Megan Ebenroth, from Dearing, was a rising star skilled in Spanish and tennis
But just 11 days after swimming in a lake with friends she was dead
A 17-year-old Georgia girl has tragically become the third person this year to die from a brain-eating amoeba in the US.

Megan Ebenroth, from Dearing, in McDuffie County near Augusta, died on July 22 just 11 days after swimming in a freshwater lake with friends.

She was infected by a single-celled organism — called Naegleria fowleri — that can get up the nose of swimmers and travel along nerves to the brain.

Her family said she was a straight-A student who dreamed of going to college at the University of Georgia.
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