Be Careful Where You Swim because of this......Pls Read

 

 

Gents and Ladies, an unidentified patient is being treated after being infected with a brain eating amoeba last week. As I learnt, this is the fourth case this year. It was reported that the individual contracted the infection “after swimming in unsanitary water”.

The parasite is almost always deadly, amongst the 138 known cases according to the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, between 1962 and 2015 only three of those patients survived.

Individuals can get infected when swimming in warm freshwater, such as a lake or river. The amoeba enters through the nose and then goes to the brain, where it destroys brain tissue, causing swelling and death. Symptoms begin between one and nine days after exposure and include headache, fever, nausea and vomiting.

It can be confused with meningitis at first. Then a stiff neck, seizures and hallucinations begin as the infection becomes worse. Those infected die between one and 18 days after symptoms begin.