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CDC Looks Toward Climate Change in Brain-Eating Amoeba Cases
2013-09-26 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are investigating whether climate change could allow for the presence of the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria Fowleri, in locations it has not previously threatened. Naegleria Fowleri survives in warm, fresh water and infects people when contaminated water enters the nose and travels to the brain, resulting in the deadly infection known as primary amebic meningoencephaltis, or PAM. The infection was confirmed in four children in the U.S. in the...
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