segunda-feira, 1 de outubro de 2018

Parasita que come o cérebro?

https://eu.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2018/10/01/brain-eating-amoeba-naegleria-fowleri-kills-man/1491834002/

Citando:
"Fabrizio "Fab" Stabile, 29, of the Atlantic City-area beach community of Ventnor City died Sept. 21, just one day after he was diagnosed with the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, according to a GoFundMe page that aims to create the Fabrizio Stabile Foundation. Stabile had been at a wave pool at BSR Cable Park's Surf Resort in Waco, Texas, and subsequently suffered from a headache Sept. 16 that progressed to an inability to get out of bed or speak coherently.

He was hospitalized Sept. 17, but doctors at first thought he had bacterial meningitis, which delayed the proper treatment. Only four people have survived the


► Sept. 28: Brain-eating amoeba found in Louisiana water system
► June 2017: Who's to blame for lake's brain-eating amoeba?
► June 2017: Deadly brain-eating amoeba symptoms are difficult to identify


Naegleria fowleri, known as the “brain-eating amoeba,” usually infects people when contaminated water, generally from lakes, rivers or streams, enters the body through the nose, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 


Once the parasite enters the nose, it travels to the brain where it can cause a fatal infection known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis. Symptoms start to show one to nine days after swimming, and infected people typically die one to 18 days after symptoms start, according to the CDC."