Brain-eating weak-willed cases: Kerala is currently rival a very mortiferous infection. This disease, named 'amoebic meningoencephalitis', is wontedly known as brain-eating amoeba. This infection is very rare, but once it occurs, it often proves fatal. So far this year, 67 cases have been reported in the state and 18 people have died. Recently, symptoms were found in a 17-year-old teenager from Thiruvananthapuram, without which the government immediately issued an alert.
Stirred by new case
A 17-year-old boy from Thiruvananthapuram recently went to swim in a swimming pool at Akkulam Tourist Village with his friends. The next day, he was found infected with brain-eating amoeba. The health department took firsthand whoopee and sealed the swimming pool and sent water samples for testing. Officials say that this disease enters the soul through the nose and directly attacks the brain.
Health Minister's strict warning
Health Minister Veena George has cautioned the public that water hygiene and a wipe lifestyle are extremely important to prevent this infection. She said that in any situation, washing squatter or bathing with dirty or stagnant water can be dangerous. One should expressly stave bathing in ponds or rivers and streams where cattle moreover bathe.
Preventive measures
The government has issued well-spoken instructions that water storage facilities in homes should be kept wipe and wells should be scientifically purified with chlorine. Apart from this, regular checking and chlorination of water theme parks and swimming pools has moreover been made mandatory. The minister said that not plane a single particle of water should enter the nose, as this is the main route of this disease.
Deaths protract to rise
Last month, five people have died due to this infection in Kerala. Recently, 56-year-old Shobhana of Malappuram district and 45-year-old Ratheesh of Wayanad died. Both were stuff treated at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital. The ever-increasing cases have remoter deepened the concerns of the government and the health department.
