YUKON, Okla. (KFOR) – Spring break is already here and it’ll be summertime before we know it, which means many Oklahomans will be hitting the water.
But before you do, a Yukon family is sharing a warning about a disease that took their daughter’s life eight and a half years ago.
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“We’re just saying be aware because we do not want anybody to not have their kid,” said Alonie McKown, Beth Knight’s mother.
In August 2015, 24-year-old Beth Knight and her children were having a blast swimming at Lake Murray.
Three days later, Beth became violently ill.
“Headaches, nausea, vomiting, she was seen at the emergency room on that day,” said Mike McKown, Beth’s father.
Doctors misdiagnosed the young mother with migraines, then meningitis, but it was actually a brain eating amoeba making her so sick.
“It’s Naegleria fowleri,” said Mike McKown. “It’s an amoeba that causes a …