Brain eating amoeba News
Naegleria fowleri typically enters the body through the nose when contaminated water is forcefully inhaled. This can happen during activities like swimming, diving, or using a neti pot for nasal irrigation. Once inside the nasal passages, the amoeba travels along the olfactory nerve to the brain.
Five cases of the rare brain infection caused by free-living amoebae living in contaminated waters had been reported in Kerala before and all the infected patients had died.
'Brain eating amoeba reported in South Korea
This is the first known infection from the disease in the country
The KDCA said the odds of human-to-human transmission of Naegleria fowleri are low
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