Brain Eating Amoeba (PAM) A Rare Disease: Systematic Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.55487/z99fva18Keywords:
Brain Eating, Amoeba, Rare Disease, coma, Meningoencephalitis & Mortality rate.Abstract
Amoebas are single celled organism. The Brain Eating Amoeba is a species found in the year of 1965. Its formal
name is Naegleria Fowleri. It is usually resides in contaminated water when it enters human body through the
nose and it will causes the rare and deadly infection and inflammation in the brain and it destroys the brain tissue
by eating it. Usually doctors call this as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). Symptoms include fever,
headache, stiff neck, vomiting, and loss of appetite, seizure and coma. Accurate diagnosis is not yet possible
but spinal tapping, physical examination will be helpful and treatment includes usually symptomatic based and
survival rate is only 3% in the world among the PAM cases. As per the recent report related to the Brain Eating
Amoeba Infections spreading in Kerala state significantly in 2025 and few lost their life due to the rare disease
The Brain Eating Amoeba and this has mortality rate 97% in different parts of the world.
