{"id":77797,"date":"2026-08-23T18:56:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/eight-year-old-dies-after-contracting-rare-brain-eating-amoeba-in-louisiana\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T18:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:56:49","slug":"eight-year-old-dies-after-contracting-rare-brain-eating-amoeba-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/eight-year-old-dies-after-contracting-rare-brain-eating-amoeba-in-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-year-old dies after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lillian Smart of Ruston infected with fatal <em>Naegleria fowleri<\/em>, likely after swimming in Lake Claiborne, health officials say<\/p>\n<p>An eight-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/louisiana\">Louisiana<\/a> girl has died after contracting a rare, typically fatal brain-eating amoeba after a swim in Lake Claiborne.<\/p>\n<p>Lillian Smart, of Ruston, died on Saturday, one day after celebrating her birthday, her family announced in a public Facebook post on the \u201cLove for Lillian\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/loveforlilliansmart\/\">page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/23\/child-dies-brain-eating-amoeba-infection-louisiana\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lillian Smart of Ruston infected with fatal Naegleria fowleri, likely after swimming in Lake Claiborne, health officials say An eight-year-old Louisiana girl has died after contracting a rare, typically fatal brain-eating amoeba after a swim in Lake Claiborne. Lillian Smart, of Ruston, died on Saturday, one day after celebrating her birthday, her family announced in &#8230; <a title=\"Eight-year-old dies after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba in Louisiana\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/eight-year-old-dies-after-contracting-rare-brain-eating-amoeba-in-louisiana\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eight-year-old dies after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba in Louisiana\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}