The 200,000 residents of Charlotte County, Florida are being advised to use tap water cautiously and avoid it from entering their noses after a man died from a brain-eating amoeba.
Naegleria fowleri , is a free-living microscopic ameba*, . It can cause a rare and devastating infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis .The disease has no known effective treatments, killing roughly 97% of those who contract it. Only four patients have survived the infection in the U.S. from 1962 to 2021.that this is the first case where a person in Florida was infected through tap water. It is also the first case in the U.S. to happen during a winter month.
Under a magnification of 125X, this photomicrograph of a brain tissue specimen depicts the cytoarchitectural changes associated with a free-living, Naegleria fowleri, amebic infection.
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