‘Brain-eating’ amoebas kill nearly 100% of victims. Could new treatments change that?

Doctors are pulling out new techniques and drugs in an effort to cure devastating brain infections.
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Doctors are pulling out new techniques and drugs in an effort to cure devastating brain infections.
A now-retired doctor in Texas describes his experience treating a child with a brain-eating amoeba infection.
In the U.S., tap water is generally safe and not a likely source of brain-eating-amoeba infections, experts told Live Science.
Many deadly infections are transmitted via water, including cholera, typhoid and brain-eating amoebas.
Researchers think climate change will soon cause an increase in the incidence of Naegleria fowleri infections, a “brain-eating” disease.
Firefighters are battling a ‘monster’ wildfire in the evacuated town of Jasper and Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.
By turning period blood into a gel, the pad’s alginate powder filler reduces leakage.
Instead of a gold medal, victors at the ancient Greek Panathenaic Games received terra-cotta pots filled with Athenian olive oil from sacred trees.
The discovery of 22,000 previously unseen moonquakes, plus a new idea of what causes them, could help us better prepare for trips there.
Humans used the now-destroyed rockshelter throughout the last ice age until just a few decades ago.