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Pakistan: Brain-eating Amoeba & Vaccination Against Childhood Pneumonia

October 12, 2012March 23, 2022 Adham Abdel Mottalib

A rare and fatal brain-eating infection killed 10 people in Karachi, Pakistan this year. This waterborne species of amoeba causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a

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