Following the deaths of two people from Louisiana who contracted brain-eating amoeba infections from their own home water systems last year, government health officials are warning people to follow appropriate guidelines when using a popular home remedy for sinus infectionsAlex Crees...
Naegleria fowleri, the "brain-eating amoeba," has claimed another victim, health officials announced last Thursday.Louisiana's Department of Health & Hospitals said in a Sept. 5 statement that testing conducted by federal health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed ...
Usually people get the amoeba up their noses while they areswimmingordiving. In 2011, there were two deaths from amoebic infections of the brain in people who had usedLouisiana tap waterin neti pots. There have also been cases in which the germ was caught whiletaking a shower. Is it abso...
Naegleria fowleri, the so-calledbrain eating amoeba, has been blamed for three deaths so far this year in the United States. Now, health officials in Louisiana are keeping a close eye ontwo water systemsthat have tested positive for the parasite. ...
Annual deaths linked to the brain-eating amoeba have been fairly low.NBC Newsreports an average of three deaths a year. CDC photo While that doesn't sound like much, the recent batch of deaths related to the amoeba could be cause for concern. ...
A 9-year-old Virginia boy apparently contracted the amoeba at a fishing camp, where his mother said he was dunked; a 16-year-old Florida girl became ill after swimming; and it was announced that a young man in Louisiana had died in June after using infected tap water to irrigate his si...
Naegleria fowleri is also known as the brain-eating amoeba. Naegleria is easy to miss if doctors do not look for it. Like bacterial meningitis, diagnosis requires a spinal tap (lumbar puncture). Naegleria fowleri is an ameba (amoeba) that is common throughout the world and lives in soil ...
6-year-old Josiah died on Sept. 8 after being infected with a brain-eating amoeba. His death prompted@LakeJacksonTXto test the water. CDC preliminary results came back yesterday. 3 of 11 samples were positive: a downtown splash pad, his home's hose bib and a hydrant.#khou11https://t...
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Both of Louisiana's 2011 infections were of people who used tap water to flush out their sinuses. However, each of the earlier cases, Yoder said the amoeba was found in the house's hot water system but not in either municipal water or water coming from the home's cold water tap. But ...