This is the first time the dangerous amoeba has appeared in Iowa. When the infection came to light, the beach of Lake of Three Fires immediately locked. “It is a precaution“, write the authorities.
The unicellular organism is very rare, but extremely lethal. It is mainly found in warm, still, fresh water. Since 1962, an infection has been reported 154 times. Only five cases are known to have survived.
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“It’s the most dangerous parasite in the world,” says a University of Georgia researcher against American media† States such as Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas have previously reported infections.
The amoeba can enter the brain through the nose, not by swallowing water. The risk can be reduced by wearing nose clips or keeping your head above water. Someone who catches it cannot infect another person with it.
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Hallucinations
According to the CDC, the first symptoms after infection are nausea, headache and fever. But after that, hallucinations can occur and a patient can go into a coma. Within 18 days, an infection usually leads to death.
In Texas, children were still infected in 2021 and 2020 after playing at water fountains. They didn’t survive that.
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