The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating Amoeba
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A deadly amoeba called Naegleria fowleri resides in fresh water and can enter the human body through the nose, targeting nerve cells, causing severe symptoms, and often resulting in death. Despite its rarity, with only a few hundred cases reported in recent decades, the amoeba's ability to evade the immune system and the lack of effective treatments leave many unanswered questions.
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- Naegleria fowleri, a deadly amoeba found in fresh water sources, enters the human body through the nose, targeting nerve cells and causing severe symptoms like headaches, fever, seizures, and hallucinations.
- Despite its rarity, Naegleria fowleri's ability to multiply in the brain, evade the immune system, and cause fatal inflammation highlights the urgent need for research into effective treatments and understanding its mechanisms of immune evasion.
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