Amoeba -- Pakistan
_Naegleria fowleri_, often dubbed as the brain-eating bug, has claimed its 1st life in 2019 in Karachi, as officials confirmed on Sat 20 Apr 2019 that a 21-year-old student from Orangi Town area of the city died on Fri 19 Apr 2019 of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), the devastating brain infection caused by the germ, at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
"A 21-year-old student from Orangi Town, [AA], was brought to JPMC with high-grade fever and other complaints.
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6433313&promed&0
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