Browse past news stories for Walden Lake Elementary School in Plant City, FL.

• Deadly amoeba a rare risk for humans (The Tampa Tribune)
  posted on October 3, 2009 at 04:00:21 am
  Smaller than a speck of dust, subsisting in the mud of warm freshwater lakes and rivers around the world, the parasite that killed a 10-year-old Plant City boy last month typically feeds on bacteria.
• Risk of amoeba infection extremely low, usually fatal (The Tampa Tribune)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 05:20:09 pm
  Smaller than a speck of dust, subsisting in the mud of warm freshwater lakes and rivers around the world, the parasite that infected a 10-year-old Plant City boy last month typically feeds on bacteria. But in rare cases, the Naegleria fowleri amoeba enters humans through the nose, making its way to the brain and spinal cord.
• Son's fatal amoeba illness was untreatable, father says (The Tampa Tribune)
  posted on September 28, 2009 at 08:50:04 pm
  An accurate diagnosis and prompt treatment would not have been enough to save 10-year-old Philip Gompf, according to his father.