Authorities are investigating the death of an Ohio teen who may have contracted a brain-eating amoeba during a visit to a popular North Carolina water park.
Lauren Seitz, 18, was visiting the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte during a trip with her church youth group on June 8.
Jim Wilson, senior pastor at Church of the Messiah United Methodist Church in Westerville, Ohio, told WCMH-TV that Lauren was among 32 students who went to North Carolina to sing at churches and nursing homes and visited the water park for fun.
The youth group returned home to Ohio on June 11, and Lauren died on June 19. "She was an incredible person, so full of life," Wilson said of Lauren, a recent Westerville South High School graduate who was enrolled at Denison University. According to her obituary , she had declared a minor in music and planned to study environmental science.
Wilson added, ?They had one day of recreation where they stopped at the U.S. Whitewater Center and went whitewater rafting and they had a grand day.
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