CHARLESTON, SC (WCBD) – The 11-year-old South Carolina girl hospitalized after contracting a usually deadly brain-eating amoeba has died.

Hannah Collins died Friday, August 5 at 10:20 p.m., according to a family statement provided to The Beaufort Gazette.

South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control confirmed Tuesday, August 2 that someone had been exposed to Naegleria fowleri.

“The exposure is thought to have occurred on July 24 while the individual was swimming near Martin’s Landing on the Edisto River in Charleston County,” officials said in a statement. The patient was not identified.

The family asked for continued prayers Thursday after being told Hannah had irreparable brain damage.

A Westerville teen died this summer after contracting the same amoeba in North Carolina.