What is the brain-eating amoeba that killed a swimmer?
can also be found in soil. However, unless you are an aardvark or literally a brown nose, you probably don't tend to shove soil up your nose. After getting infected, you may start to notice symptoms in one to nine days such as a fever, a headache, nausea, or vomiting.
This can seem like the flu, but soon other symptoms related to inflammation of the brain and the membranes around the brain occur, such as getting stiff neck, becoming confused, having hallucinations, losing your sense of balance, suffering seizures, and lapsing into a coma. The disease progresses pretty quickly and many times death results within 5 days. All of this, of course, sounds terrible unless you are a brain-eating amoeba.145 documented cases in the U.S.
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