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National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.), Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases. ;
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Naegleria fowleri infections are rare and devastating. From 2005 to 2014, 35 infections were reported in the U.S. All but two were fatal. • Naegleria fowleri is a warm water-loving ameba found around the world, often in warm or hot freshwater (lakes, rivers, and hot springs). • Naegleria fowleri ameba can travel up the nose and into the brain. This causes the disease primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), which destroys brain tissue and causes brain swelling and death. • Of 133 people known to be infected in the U.S. since 1962, only three people survived. CS254858_A naegleria_factsheet508c.pdf
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Amebiasis/Prevention & Control
Central Nervous System Protozoal Infections/Prevention & Control
Naegleria Fowleri

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Fact Sheet ;
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Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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