For the first time in 12 years, Taiwanese doctors have recorded the death of a person from meningoencephalitis caused by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri (Naegleria fowleri). This was announced on August 9 by the Center for Disease Control of Taiwan..

It is noted that the victim of a unicellular organism was a 30-year-old woman. According to the center, on June 26, she went to the doctors with a headache, fever, convulsions and other symptoms..

Her condition deteriorated rapidly, and in early August the patient died..

A month before the onset of symptoms, the woman visited a water park in Xinbei City. Epidemiologists took water samples in the institution, but the results of the study are not yet known.. Entertainment center closed. There is disinfection.

Negleria fowlera lives in freshwater hot springs, rivers and lakes with water temperatures up to 46 degrees Celsius.. When water enters the nose, it penetrates the human brain and begins to feed on its cells.. The first symptoms of malaise appear after a week.

The first and until recently the only human death from the amoeba Negleria Fowler in Taiwan was recorded in 2011..

Then her victim was a 75-year-old man who became infected after visiting a hot spring..

For the first time, scientists recorded the death of a person as a result of this infectious disease in 1965 in Australia..

Recall that last summer a case of infection with bubonic plague was discovered in China..

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