Naegleria fowleri are amoeba that live in warm freshwater. It enters the body when contaminated water gets in your nose. This typically occurs when people go swimming or diving in warm freshwater ...

The pathogen in question is called Naegleria fowleri ... Young males are most commonly affected, and the average age of infections is 12 years old. N. fowleri is a microscopic single-celled ...

PAM may be rare but can affect anybody ... people swim in freshwater bodies that tend to be warm. Naegleria fowleri is known to infect people only when water containing the amoeba enters the ...

With the death of a 39-year-old woman on Sunday, February 23, one more case of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a ...