Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A seven-year-old boy has died after contracting a rare brain-eating parasite while swimming in a lake in the US.David Pruitt was taken to hospital hours after being infected with the deadly bug on July 30.Tributes are flooding in for the lad after his family announced he has since died of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, commonly known as PAM.They said: "We are sad and broken-hearted to report that our sweet little David has passed on."He is now in the loving arms of our Lord and family members who have passed before him.
We are rejoicing in knowing he is no longer in pain and in the best of care." His family is now warning others of the waterborne bug Naegleria fowleri after David.
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