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Naegleria Fowleri Amoeba, These victims died after swimming in hot springs, the source of warm water and rinse your nose with tap water. It happened the same type of water-water after touching it. Not unexpectedly, the water-water that contains brain-eating amoeba that causes severe brain damage.

In June 2011, a man in Louisiana died from the Naegleria Fowleri Amoeba infection after rinsing his nose in tap water. The second incident on August 14, 2011, a 16-year-old girl in Florida, the U.S. also died from the same infection after swimming in warm water, as reported by LiveScience.

Finally, a 9-year-old boy in Virginia, the United States has recently also died of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, which is an infection caused by the Amoeba Naegleria Fowleri. He died after swimming in hot springs.

Disease primary amoebic meningoencephalitis occurred rarely and virtually untreatable. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) U.S., over the range of 2001 to 2010 there were reports of 32 cases. While of some of the drugs successfully tested in the laboratory, only a few that are proven to save patients from being infected.

Naegleria Fowleri Amoeba can be fatal because it attacks the central nervous system. The inflammation stems from the olfactory nerve and growing rapidly spread to parts of the brain, brainstem, posterior fossa and spinal cord. This amoeba breed in the eyes of many sources of warm water.

Amoeba infection is not curable, partly because of new symptoms will appear seven days after exposure to the amoeba, the same as bacterial meningitis.

Symptoms of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis include headache, fever, anorexia, vomiting, dead inflammation, altered mental status and coma. In addition, primary amoebic meningoencephalitis usually only be diagnosed by autopsy, as well as bacterial meningitis.

According to the CDC, the key to diagnosis is only on things that are done before the patient dies, especially if the patient is fit and healthy before symptoms appear after a week previously exposed to warm water. Other signs such as symptoms of bacterial meningitis that can be known through the CT scan of the head.

Virginia Hall appealed to the community epidemiology aware of the risks before swimming, especially during the rainy season with temperatures no higher and in order to avoid swimming in still water or slow-moving.

In 2008, the CDC had reported that so far have found 121 similar cases from 1937 to 2007, but only one was saved. A report in 1982 in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that a California girl nine years of successfully treated after contracting an infection while swimming in hot springs in the San Bernardino National Forest.  Cause Naegleria Fowleri Amoeba too.