Brain eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri spreading in US, warns scientists
Brain eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri spreading in US, warns scientists
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A latest report says due to the climatic change a deadly brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri is gradually advancing northwards from the southern United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed more cases being registered in Midwestern states than before indicating that the geographic range of these cases has been shifting northward. 

Naegleria fowleri amoeba is typically found in living, breathing people of freshwater, including lakes and streams. The swimming or diving in infected waters causes the single adaptable cell goes from the nose into the mind. The infection causes staggering mind contamination known as essential amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), which is all around lethal. Diseases happen when debased water goes up an individual's nose, allowing the amoebic creature to enter the cerebrum through the olfactory nerves (answerable for your feeling of smell) and decimate mind tissue. Gulping tainted water won't cause disease, the CDC says. 

The amoeba flourishes in warm waters, up to 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius), it's possible that warming global temperatures may affect the organisms' geographic range, the authors said. The report paper says, "It is conceivable that rising temperatures and resulting increments in recreational water use, for example, swimming and water sports, could add to the changing the study of disease transmission of PAM". 

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