A person in Pakistan died from a suspected “brain-eating amoeba” this week after he swam in a pool.

The 30-year-old man got here down with a headache and fever for 4 days after his swim in Lahore. He spent sooner or later within the hospital earlier than dying from a coronary heart assault, in keeping with The Telegraph.

Health authorities are working to substantiate the person’s loss of life was facilitated by Naegleria fowleri, the amoeba’s scientific identify. 

It could be the primary case of the amoeba detected in Lahore.

The microscopic, single-celled organism is often present in heat our bodies of water, corresponding to ponds, lakes, rivers and scorching springs. 

“It gets into the nostrils while we’re swimming and then the amoeba penetrates the cribriform plate into the brain,” Sutherland Maciver, who research the organism on the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, informed the media outlet New Scientist. “It’s called the brain-eating amoeba, which is a lurid, but fairly defendable, nickname.”

The amoeba causes meningitislike signs and destroys the mind tissue. Mr. Maciver stated the illness has a 96% fatality price.

In May, three individuals died from the organism in Karachi, Pakistan, in keeping with Outbreak News Today.

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