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Indian man dies from Naegleria fowleri brain-eating amoeba after swim in indoor pool – 7NEWS.com.au
The 44-year-old man presented to a hospital emergency department suffering from confusion, and a cough. He died five days later.
A man has died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in an indoor pool in India.
A 44-year-old man presented to a hospital emergency department suffering from confusion, and a cough, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Hed swum in an indoor pool just six days earlier.
Doctors noted he had a body temperature of 39.8 degrees and his heart rate was 120 beats per minute.
A man has died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in an indoor pool in Indi…
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