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'Brain-eating Amoeba' claims life in S. Korea; Another Covid in the making? |Oneindia News*Explainer

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'Brain-eating Amoeba' claims life in S. Korea; Another Covid in the making? |Oneindia News*Explainer

'Brain-eating Amoeba' claims life in S. Korea; Another Covid in the making? |Oneindia News*Explainer

Days after South Korea reported its first death from an infection that people have rarely heard of ,online traffic has been going wild with people world over trying to look up this fatal infection.

South Korean authorities had confirmed on Monday that a man had died after being infected with a deadly infection caused by ‘Naegleria fowleri’, which is also known as the ‘brain-eating amoeba’.

In this video, we decode what exactly is this ‘Naegleri Fowleri’...or the ‘brain-eating amoeba’…and the threats posed by this lethal infection.

But before that, don’t forget to like, share and subscribe to Oneindia.

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