Zombie Brain-Eating Amoeba
from Medically Speaking Radio Hosted by Mark Vaughan, M.D. and Muhammad Afzal, M.D.
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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