Two years later, 9-year-old Jack Ariola Erenberg died of the same infection after swimming in the same lake. The parasite was later found in Stillwater’s Lily Lake, where Annie had been swimming. Between 19, there were 128 cases of the parasitic infection reported in the United States, mostly in the South. 21, 2010, her death attributed to Naegleria fowleri, a vicious parasite that lives in warm freshwater all over the world and is harmful when it enters the human body through the nose. “At one point, she sat up and said, ‘My head hurts terrible,’ ” Bridget Bahneman said. Paul.īut Annie’s parents, Chad and Bridget Bahneman, knew something was horribly wrong when a delusional Annie asked why there were animals in her hospital room. Or when she lay seizing in her mother’s arms as her father raced the family car from Stillwater to Children’s Hospital in St. It wasn’t clear when the 7-year-old’s fever hit 104 degrees and she started throwing up and couldn’t stop. It wasn’t clear what kind of monster was inside Annie Bahneman until an autopsy revealed the presence of a rare brain-eating amoeba.
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