California News – 08-16-2021

Young California boy contracts brain-eating amoeba and dies 

  • A 7-year-old boy named David Pruitt has died about a week after swimming in a Tehama County-area lake where he contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba 
  • According to the family, David was flown to UC Davis Medical Center on July 30 where he was diagnosed with “primary amebic meningoencephalitis (or PAM)
  • According to the Tehama County Health Services Agency, there have only been 10 PAM cases reported in California since 1971

Thousands are evacuated as Northern California and Utah feel the effects of intense wildfires

  • Both Northern California and Utah have been announced thousands of evacuations due to intense wildfires
  • On August 15, Oregon firefighters announced that they had fully contained the Dixie Fire which had spread to more than 550,000 acres across 4 counties in Northern California
  • In eastern Utah, the Parleys Canyon Fire, which ignited on Saturday afternoon, quickly forced the evacuation of at least 6,000 homes, according to the authorities

By K Buenavista

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