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The powerful Atlantic cyclone Irma, which recently hit Florida, brought a terrible infection to America – Fowler’s neglia, also known as brain-eating amoeba.
These unicellular organisms caught in the local warm fresh water bodies pose a huge danger to people. In during bathing or contact with contaminated water, parasites penetrate the nose, from where they sneak along the olfactory nerve into the brain, infecting in As a result, the entire nervous system of a person.
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis caused by these microorganisms are usually fatal. Science knows only one the case when the patient was cured of this disease. it happened in 2012 with a 5 month old Iranian boy. However in generally, any person after such an infection dies within 24 days. Before that, he experiences dizziness, headache, hallucinations, impaired motor skills, seizures. Also possible loss hearing, sight and smell and so on.
In the video below, Dr. Manny Alvarez tells the journalist about what happened. According to the specialist, already 143 cases of infection of residents of Florida “eating brain amoeba. ”
The worst thing, says the scientist, is that mortality from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis is about 99 percent, and to save the infected is unlikely to succeed. In addition, doctors very often they do not immediately diagnose this ailment, believing that the patient sick with something else. When the doctors finally realize what’s up, the parasite is already common throughout the human nervous system, and antibiotics in this case just become useless.
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