Health, Arkansas: little girl defeats parasite Naegleria floweri - Weather Centre Italian

August 16, 2013 – 18:31

Into The news you do not expect. A little girl has literally defeated by their own efforts the parasite Naegleria floweri . The girl from the area of ??”Arkansas, Harding Kali, in the previous month of July has become aware of the symptoms caused by the protist, question of meningoencephalitis Primary amoebic. It has been subjected to multiple therapies and reported no damage and is alive in good health. The disease was contracted within a water park in Arkansas. The parasite is very present during wet weather, lakes or rivers in the mountains. If present in the water there is a risk that it can be inserted into the nostrils and through the human olfactory nerve to reach the brain beginning to feed themselves and nidificarsi, enacting a play really fast. Attacking the brain tissue, in many individuals going to cause forms of acute meningitis that 90 percent of the time leading to death.

Into The parasite Naegleria floweri is a protist, in one of its phases outwardly similar to an amoeba that lives in fresh water at varying temperatures, growing best in warm water up to 42 º C. In humans, infection with Naegleria fowleri can cause an extremely serious disease, the primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, which affects the central nervous system. The disease has a rapid trend which, if not diagnosed and treated quickly leads to death within a week.