Battling a rare brain-eating disease in an Indian state

[Sanjeev]

On the eve of Onam, 45-year-old Sobhana was brought to hospital. The doctors prescribed medicines and sent her home. However, her condition worsened at an alarming rate: unease gave way to fever, fever to violent shivering, and Sobhana died on September 5. The cause was Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, an infection normally caught through the nose in freshwater and so uncommon that most doctors never see a case in their whole careers. In Kerala this year, more than 70 persons have been diagnosed. This single-cell organism, which often feeds on bacteria in warm freshwater, produces a near-fatal brain infection known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). It enters the body through the nose while swimming and quickly damages brain tissue.

 

[eLdavis]

Seventy persons already? This is becoming serious and the government needs to start taking specific measures to try and prevent more cases.

 

[arunima25]

That's alarming. 70 person already have lost their lives. Government should look for the source at war front and increase awareness. It has to be stopped before it claims more lives.

 

[Starmix]

That was so sad, the doctor failed to diagnose his sickness. That brain-eating amoeba is also found in Florida. Many also died there.

 

[Augusta]

More than 70 persons have been diagnosed already. This is not good I hope it's tackle pretty soon

 

[Stardom22]

No wonder that why l really don't like swimming and l dislike water bodies for sure.

 

[Starmix]

That is also a rare case, hoping the people near where the victim was infected with brain-eating bacteria must avoid it.

 

[kit_hung]

Sobhana's mother died in a shocking accident. The brain-eating amoeba killed her with unprecedented speed.

This is a very rare disease found in hot water. The amoeba enters the nose when a person swims.

Kerala has had over seventy people affected. It is an unimaginable disaster for the region.

Please swim in water that has been treated with medicine. Do not enter hot water holes without protection. Do not panic but be careful for the sake of the community.

 

[Bigshow]

The rate its growing the more it need the government to step up their game and atlest educate people about the diseases its heart breaking now