Amid a new Covid-19 scare emerging in China, South Korea has reported the first case of Naegleria fowleri infection that has killed a man in his 50s. According to a report in The Korea Times, the man who had stayed in Thailand for four months before returning to Korea on December 10, died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri. According …
If you think we have had it all in 2020, and nothing can surprise or frighten us anymore, it’s time to brace yourself. As if the deadly novel coronavirus wasn’t enough to make our lives miserable, a brain-eating amoeba strain is causing major worry over the US and other nations. Back in September this year, the news of a six-year-old …
A six-year-old boy in Texas has died after he was infected with what was traced to ‘brain-eating amoeba,’ or scientifically, naegleria fowleri. The governor of Texas has issued a disaster declaration after the death of a six-year-old boy infected with a brain-eating amoeba that was later found in his community’s water supply. The child died on September 8 following an …
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