Zombie Brain-Eating Amoeba

from Medically Speaking Radio · host Mark Vaughan, M.D. and Larry Finney

We discuss the brain-eating amoeba (Naeglaria fowleri) which killed two people in Louisiana this month. The amoeba is almost uniformly fatal and infects victims when contaminated fresh water enters their nose.

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