Viral Load
The disease podcast for a diseased world! Hosts: Brett Bayles (a professor) & Andy Pupa (not a professor) gleefully explore the weird and wacky world of diseases on a changing planet.
Viral Load
Brain Eating Amoebas
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Brett Bayles (a professor) / Andy Pupa (not a professor)
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Episode 41
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I know what your thinking 2020 has been a piece of cake and you have nothing to worry about. Well you're in luck this week we dive into the stagnant waters of your nightmares and bring you Naegleria the brain eating amoeba!
Sources:
- https://www.popsci.com/story/science/brain-eating-amoeba-rare-infection/
- https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/naegleria-infection/symptoms-causes/syc-20375470
- https://www.insider.com/rise-of-brain-eating-amoeba-naegleria-fowleri-in-us-waters-2020-7
- https://www.ajtmh.org/content/journals/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0110
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- Centers for Disease Control (2013) Primary amebic meningoencephalitis associated with ritual nasal rinsing - St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2012. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 62 (45) 903.
- https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/treatment.html
- https://www.livescience.com/54281-amoeba-definition.html
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471492219302673?casa_token=FKYW41d3NWkAAAAA:1yB8YZaFfUiSP02gSgTsyxUD7pxZhPGX7gMKr3mxUO8owSYsUcVwJ_cOB0U3VCFqmV7l0qmoaA