[DAWN] KARACHI: A young resident of Orangi Town on Saturday became the sixth victim of the deadly Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the 'brain-eating' amoeba, this year in Sindh, officials said.Mohammad Muallim, 22, who had been under treatment at the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
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(CHK) for the past two days, was the fifth patient to have died from the disease in May, the officials added.
The officials also confirmed to Dawn the presence of another young patient suffering from the disease in a government health facility.
The lethal amoeba, which survives on the bacteria in warm waters and enters the human brain through nasal cavity and eats up its tissues, could only be eliminated through proper chlorination or boiling of water.
The officials said that Muallim, who resided in Orangi Town's MPR Colony, had been brought to the CHK two days ago in a critical condition and admitted to the medical intensive care unit. He died at the hospital after falling into a coma on Saturday, they said.
"The patient had a history of three days of severe headache, nausea and irritability," said Karachi health director Dr Zafar Ejaz while speaking to Dawn.