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ATLANTA (AP) - Two children and a young man died this summer from a brain-eating amoeba that lives in water, health officials.
This month, a rare infection killed a 16-year-old girl in Florida who became ill after swimming, and a 9-year-old boy in Virginia, who died a week after he went fishing to day camp. The boy was wet with the first day of camp, his mother told the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
These cases are consistent with previous cases, which are usually the children - often boys - the bugs are exposed while swimming or do water in ponds or lakes warm.
The third case, Louisiana, was unusual. He was a young man whose death in June was attributed to the tap water he used in a device called a neti pot. This is a small pot of tea-pot to rinse the nose and paranasal sinuses with salt water to allergies, colds and alleviate problems with the sinuses used.
Health officials later found the amoeba in the water system of the house. The problem was confined to the house, it was not found in samples of tap water, said Dr. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana state epidemiologist.
The young man who was identified only in his 20s and southeast Louisiana was not swimming or had contact with surface water, said Ratard.
He said that should be sterile distilled water or boiled water in the neti pots are used.
The disease is extremely rare. About 120 cases in the United States - almost all of them dead - have been reported since the amoeba has been identified in the early 1960s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About three deaths each year on average. Last year there were four.
There is no evidence that increasing the cases, said Jonathan Yoder, the monitoring of water-borne diseases for the CDC coordinates.
The amoeba - Naegleria fowleri (nuh-GLEER-ee-uh FOWL-er-eye) - the nose rises burrowing into his skull and damaged brain tissue. It is found in warm lakes and rivers during the hot summer months, especially in the south.
It is a medical mystery why some people swim in water containing amoeba get fatal nervous system condition, while others do not, experts say.
But the cases that occur are usually tragic, and there was only one report of successful treatment.
"It is very difficult to treat die. Most people," said Ratard.
Filmmaker and screenwriter Mark Boal Kathryn Bigelow responded Wednesday charges that her film on the capture of bin Laden as a ploy to boost the reelection campaign of President.
The New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd wrote on Sunday that the Obama administration is granting the filmmakers access to the benefit of the president election. "How Obama country hoped the film for October 12, 2012 is planned - perfectly timed to give a boost home stretch of a campaign that has become more difficult to give," Dowd wrote: "The filmmakers have high access to the secret mission in the history of a government. that attempts to more people has to throw in jail for disclosing classified information the Bush administration. "
Bigelow and Boal, who has worked with Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker denied the proposal published on Wednesday in a joint statement, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, and elsewhere.
"Our next film project for the continuation of decades of bin Laden was in the works for many years and involves the joint efforts of the three administrations, including President Clinton, Bush and Obama:" In addition to the Defense Department and the CIA, they say. "It was an American triumph, both heroic and non-partisan," she said of the mission, "and there is no basis for making our film is represented on this otherwise great victory."
Rep. Peter King (RN.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security, to be called yesterday for an investigation into the allegations and access classified information shared benefit policy.
"The first duty of government declassification is to create comprehensive reports to Congress and the American people, in an effort to build public confidence through transparency of government," King wrote in a letter to the Department of Defense Inspector General Gordon Heddell and the CIA Inspector General David Buckley. "However, is this supposed cooperation is an obligation of transparency for a cinematic view of history."
The White House has denied the allegations Wednesday and immediately the king said no classified information was released. "The claims are ridiculous," White House spokesman Jay Carney said at a news conference. Carney added that, when writers and filmmakers ask to speak with officials of the administration, White House is just trying to ensure strength and accuracy.
"We do not discuss classified information. And I hope we face a continuing threat of terrorism, would House Committee on Homeland Security have more important things to discuss a film," said Carney.
Philip Strub, the Pentagon's director of entertainment media, confirmed CNN that he had a meeting with Bigelow and his team, but added: "We go to great lengths not to reveal classified information." The door to speak for the Pentagon said Col. David Lapan Bigelow team had other meetings of the Department of Defense offers the kind of Pentagon apparently the filmmakers settled on a regular basis.
Even some leftist critics - who protest to the king through a partisan lens - that this component could be good for transparency.
"Regardless of the motives opportunistic King of the recent movement creates the possibility for a further examination of how our government as a whole - whether Democrat or Republican administrations - now regularly and systematically used taxpayer resources to our popular culture to permeate" movie "militaristic ideology, and uses the same taxpayer resources to try to spread anti-military intelligence to prevent, "writes author and liberal talk radio host, David Sirota in Salon.
ATLANTA (AP) - Two children and a young man died this summer from a brain-eating amoeba that lives in water, health officials.