Amoeba -- Pakistan
Health officials in Karachi, Pakistan are reporting another _Naegleria fowleri_ case in the city, the 7th of the year to date, in a 38-year-old man of North Karachi.
He was admitted to the Ziauddin Hospital and is in the ICU after being denied treatment at 2 other hospitals.
According to a report prepared by the Regional Disease Surveillance and Response Unit, the risk factor in this case was piped water.
"There is an urgent need to assess the process of chlorination and level of
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