Passing Through the Nose Into the Body: Brain-Eating Amoeba Infests Man in U.S. Badensee

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A Louisiana man contracted a brain-eating amoeba after taking a trip to Lake Claiborne in Louisiana and is fighting for his life in hospital.

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A jump into the water becomes a man's fight for survival. On a trip to a popular reservoir, he infected himself with a dangerous individual.

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When swimming in a bathing lake, a man from the USA is infected with a dangerous parasite. According to experts, the mortality rate is almost 100 percent. In Europe, too, the first cases of brain-eating amoeba have already been reported.

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In Louisiana, USA, a man swimming in a pond contracted Naegleria fowleri, a rare amoeba known as the "brain-eating amoeba," which has a 95-99% mortality rate.