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  2. Map shows where brain-eating amoebas are infecting people in ...

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    Brain-eating amoebas may be moving north as waters warm Recent data has not shown an increase in case reports over the past few years. In 2019, 2020, and 2021, three cases were reported to the CDC ...

  3. Naegleria fowleri - Wikipedia

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    Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a species of the genus Naegleria. It belongs to the phylum Percolozoa and is classified as an amoeboflagellate excavate , [ 1 ] an organism capable of behaving as both an amoeba and a flagellate .

  4. Naegleriasis - Wikipedia

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    Naegleria fowleri is also known as the "brain-eating amoeba". This common name has also been applied to Balamuthia mandrillaris, causing some confusion between the two; Balamuthia mandrillaris is unrelated to Naegleria fowleri, and causes a different disease called granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.

  5. Brain-eating amoeba - Wikipedia

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    The term "brain-eating amoeba" has been used to refer to several microorganisms: Naegleria fowleri, which causes naegleriasis; Acanthamoeba spp., which causes the slow-acting infection acanthamoebiasis; Balamuthia mandrillaris, which causes balamuthiasis; Paravahlkampfia francinae, which causes a form of PAM; Sappinia pedata, which causes a ...

  6. Georgia resident dies from rare brain-eating amoeba, health ...

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    From 1962 to 2021, only four out of 154 people in the United States survived a brain-eating amoeba infection, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  7. Brain-eating amoeba confirmed in South Carolina

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    A South Carolina resident has been exposed to a brain-eating amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri. The rare, potentially deadly amoeba is naturally present in warm fresh water -- yet it's generally ...

  8. Amoebic encephalitis - Wikipedia

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    Amoebic encephalitis or amoebic meningoencephalitis may refer to several potentially fatal diseases that are infections of the central nervous system by free-living amoebae, often referred to in the media as a "brain-eating amoeba" infection: Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis; Naegleriasis, also known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis

  9. Brain-eating amoeba that thrives in warm conditions detected ...

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    Public officials are in the process of eliminating Naegleria Fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, from two drinking water supplies in Louisiana. Naegleria Fowleri was detected during routine tests last ...