Brain-Eating Amoeba Infections Are Rare, but Deadly—Research Is Working on a Cure

The rate of incidence of infection by Naegleria fowleri in the U.S. is very, very low. But there’s something about picking up an incurable, brain-eating amoeba by swimming in freshwater lakes and rivers that understandably freaks people out. N. fowleri causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), which is a brain infection that causes destruction of brain tissue.
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