-- Australia
Doctors across Australia are being urged to be on alert this summer [2016-17] for a very rare but fatal brain disease after a 12-month-old boy died at Townsville Hospital [Queensland] last year [2015].
The boy was Australia's latest victim of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) after contracting it while swimming in a lake or river.
The boy, who comes from a western Queensland cattle-farming region, was unable to breathe on his own within 18 hours of leaving home with a persistent
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2dEIGRE
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