Local news outlets report the center is scheduled to reopen on Wednesday. It shut down its whitewater rafting course on June 23 after 18-year-old Lauren Seitz of Westerville, Ohio, died from an infection caused by the amoeba. Channels at the center were drained after the water tested positive for th
Date: Aug 10, 2016
Category: Health
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Charlotte ponders what to do with water at Whitewater Center
The center's water contains the Naegleria fowleri amoeba blamed for the June 19 death of 18-year-old Lauren Seitz of Westerville, Ohio. Health officials think Seitz contracted the illness when she fell out of a raft at the center.
Date: Jul 07, 2016
Category: Health
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Call for Review of Whitewater Center After Amoeba Death
Mecklenburg County Health Director Marcus Plescia said at a news conference that his agency doesn't have the capacity to analyze the water for the type of amoeba responsible for the death of 18-year-old Lauren Seitz.
Date: Jun 27, 2016
Category: Health
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Whitewater Center closes water channels after deadly amoeba detected in water
Local, state and federal health officials are investigating after an Ohio teenager died from brain-eating amoeba days after visiting the Whitewater Center in Charlotte. That is what is believed to have happened to recent high school graduate Lauren Seitz, 18, from Ohio. A letter from the Mecklenburg
Date: Jun 26, 2016
Category: Health
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North Carolina Center Where Teen Allegedly Contracted Brain-Eating Amoeba Shuts Down Whitewater Activities
Eighteen-year-old Lauren Seitz of Westerville, Ohio, died June 19th after health department officials say the raft she was in overturned and the amoeba went up her nose, causing the deadly infection.
Date: Jun 25, 2016
Category: Health
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'Brain-eating amoeba' blamed in teen's death following church trip
Lauren Seitz of Westerville, Ohio, died from a suspected case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), and officials are investigating whether she contracted the infection while whitewater rafting in Charlotte during a church trip, the Charlotte Observer reported.
Date: Jun 24, 2016
Category: Health
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Whitewater Center in NC voluntarily shutting down after teen dies from amoeba
While the NCDHHS didnt release the persons identity, 18-year-old Lauren Seitzs church, Church of the Messiah United Methodist, in Westerville, OH says the teen girl died Sunday. This is the same day NCDHHS says the victim died.