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Health experts say that amoeba affects people when contaminated water enters the body. It can travel to the brain and cause a condition known as amoebic meningoencephalite, a rare but very deadly disease, according to the US Centers for Disease Control.
As a result, people in Brazoria and nearby areas have been prohibited from drinking or using tap water in any other way due to the germ that causes a very rare form of encephalitis. This disease progresses very quickly and kills the infected person within a week. Health experts say it affects people when contaminated water reaches their noses. The highest risk of infection occurs in July, August and September.
As a result, authorities have thoroughly cleaned up the distribution system in that area,
Later, after multiple tests, they lifted the restriction on Saturday for several neighborhoods, except Lake Jackson, Texas.
Amoeba, known as naegleria fowleri, the water network that supplies 58,000 people is still present.
Naegleria fowleri lives in warm waters and is not transmitted from person to person. Also, a person can bathe in a water infected with this amoeba (amoeba) and nothing will happen.The amoeba that feeds on the human brain was discovered in 1962. Since then, 145 people have been infected in the United States. Only four survived, each case considered a medical miracle.
Despite the fact that only a few hundred deaths have been reported in recent decades, researchers are concerned. The last victim of the amoeba was 29-year-old Fabrizio Stabile, from New Jersey, United States. The young man fell ill while mowing the lawn and came to the hospital with terrible migraines. He died a week later, diagnosed with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, he independently reports.
Naegleria fowleri becomes very dangerous, experts say, when water enters the nose and sticks to the mucosa within the nasal cavity.
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