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Swimming-related brain disease claims lives
May 29, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In 2007, six people from southern states died from a rare brain infection that can occur after swimming in warm lakes and rivers, according to findings released Thursday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a rare, but nearly always fatal disease caused by the ameba Naegleria fowleri, investigators from the CDC and the states where the infections occurred note. The microbe enters the brain through the nose and the infection causes various symptoms, including headache, neck stiffness, nausea, and vomiting.....
Thanks for bringing this up right before I have two OW races in the next two weeks. Wait, make that three in three weeks, if you consider the pathetic short leg of a triathon an OW race.
Thanks for bringing this up right before I have two OW races in the next two weeks. Wait, make that three in three weeks, if you consider the pathetic short leg of a triathon an OW race.
