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HEALTH: A tragic death, a medical mystery
BY JANET ZIMMERMAN / STAFF WRITER
Published: Dec. 5, 2014 Updated: Dec. 6, 2014 7:34 p.m.
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The long incubation period makes it hard to pinpoint where the amoeba came from, said Jonathan Yoder, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control.
Balamuthia mandrillaris is the same organism that killed a Murrieta fire captain in 2008...