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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.....
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How about correlating those deaths with deaths per year by drowning, wasps or bee stings, lightning and others. I think some 200 kids die per year in swimming pools, maybe over 3,000 adults die of drowning...I didn't check the statistics.
How about correlating those deaths with deaths per year by drowning, wasps or bee stings, lightning and others. I think some 200 kids die per year in swimming pools, maybe over 3,000 adults die of drowning...I didn't check the statistics.
