By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Karachi, Pakistan are reporting another Naegleria fowleri case in the city, the seventh of the year to date, in a 38-year-old man of North Karachi. He...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up to the situation in Karachi, Pakistan and the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, health officials Monday confirmed another amoebic meningitis fatality,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Regional Disease Surveillance and Response Unit (RDSRU) of Directorate General Health Services in Pakistan has reported at least 11 fatalities due to the “brain-eating...

A nine-month-old girl has become the sixth Naegleria fowleri, or “brain-eating amoeba” fatality reported in the Karachi area in the past two months, according to a Dawn.com report today. It...

The number of cases and fatalities due to the “brain-eating amoeba”, Naegleria fowleri has increased by two this week, bringing the total number of cases in Karachi to five in the past two...

Pakistan, which recorded an outbreak of the “brain-eating” amoeba, Naegleria fowleri in 2012, which killed 10 people,  has recorded it’s first case and fatality in 2014 in a man from...