The agency has indicated that the chances of transmission of the disease from one person to another are low "Yohap" South Korean news.
The man is in his fifties South Korea On December 10, after a 4-month stay in Thailand, he was transferred to the hospital the next day and died last Tuesday.
Brain-eating amoeba
- This is the first known case of the disease in South Korea.
- Reported the first injury brain-eating amoeba In the United States in 1937.
- Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba commonly found in warm freshwater lakes, rivers, canals and ponds around the world.
- The amoeba is inhaled through the nose and passed on to the the brain destroy its tissue.
- In 2018, a total of 381 cases of Naegleria fowleri were reported worldwide, including the United States, India and Thailand.
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The Korean Fighting Agency illnesses And to prevent them, that a Korean citizen died after returning from ThailandHe was infected with Naegleria fowleri, which destroys the human brain.
And the agency has indicated that the possibility of transmission of the disease from one person to another is low, South Korean news agency “Yonhap” reported.
The man is in his fifties South Korea On December 10, after a 4-month stay in Thailand, he was transferred to the hospital the next day and died last Tuesday.
Brain-eating amoeba
- This is the first known case of the disease in South Korea.
- Reported the first injury brain-eating amoeba In the United States in 1937.
- Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba commonly found in warm freshwater lakes, rivers, canals and ponds around the world.
- The amoeba is inhaled through the nose and transmitted to the the brain destroy its tissue.
- In 2018, a total of 381 cases of Naegleria fowleri were reported worldwide, including the United States, India and Thailand.
