Amoeba, Meningitis -- India
A fatal microbe that invades the body through the nose and travels through nerve fibres into brain where its feeds on cerebral tissues could be active in Kolkata [the capital of West Bengal state]. Even though extremely rare -- with less than 150 cases recorded worldwide since 1965 -- primary amoebic meningoencephalitis or PAM struck a 14-year-old boy in Kolkata earlier this month [January 2016].
Doctors suspect he contracted the [amoeba] while swimming and have warned that pools and other
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