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Midlands child dies from rare brain infection
Posted: 07.18.2012 at 11:17 PM Updated: 07.19.2012 at 11:10 AM
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The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control has confirmed that a Sumter County boy has died from a rare infection of the brain.  / Prayers for Blake Driggers / Facebook
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Child was exposed to the deadly organism Naegleria fowleri.

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