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| Alarm as 'brain-eating amoeba' kills two more in Karachi |
| 2015-05-17 |
| [DAWN] KARACHI: Two more deaths caused by Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the 'brain-eating' amoeba, have been reported from a private hospital in Clifton during the past 15 days, bringing the total number of deaths caused by Naegleria to three this year, said provincial health authorities and hospital sources on Friday. The lack of coordination between the provincial health department and the hospital administration was evident when the former expressed unawareness about any such cases in the city. "We have inquired about such cases from all the major private hospitals but no one has confirmed them," said a bigwig in the health department. "A private hospital has confirmed the death of one person, a man named Farooq, while the other death of a woman is suspected to be due to the brain-eating amoeba but it has not been confirmed by the hospital," said Zafar Ejaz, director health of the provincial health department. Sources in Dr Ziauddin Hospital in Clifton said the hospital admitted two individuals within the past two weeks and both died of Naegleria fowleri. The latest death, they said, was of a 37-year-old man, resident of Defence Housing Authority, who was admitted in the hospital earlier this week. He died on Thursday. The sources said a 40-year-old woman, resident of Clifton Block 5, was also admitted to Dr Ziauddin Hospital two weeks ago and she, too, died a couple of days later due to Naegleria. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 A brain eating organism is loose in Pakistan. I don't like it's chances. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2015-05-17 11:39 |
| #1 I thought this was rampant throughout the middle east. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-05-17 11:20 |