Arousal of a New, Life-Taking Threat to the World….. Naegleria Fowleri!!

Objective: Since we are living in the city near the coast shore and we have got a marine life as well along with the humans living in Karachi, A newly introduced life threatening Marine amoeba ‘Naegleria Fowleri’ should be brought into special considerations. Health officials have disclosed the news that this about 144 lives has been claimed in different countries all over the world by this deadly water borne infection (Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis).
Method: The major object of this study was to know how many people actually know about this lethal protist and what amount of victims we have of this brutal organism. A general survey was conducted among 100 people belonging to various categories of our society in Karachi. The type of participants we got included Students, Teachers, working men and women, local citizens and old age people who watch news on a regular basis with great interest.
Results: Our results showed us that most of the people in Karachi have some kind of perception regarding Naegleria and the major source of information was found to be Media and television. But none of them knew about the symptoms that appear after inhalation of this amoeba which creates greater chances of death of our people.
Conclusion: Since Naegleria fowleri enters through the nose and invades the CNS where it starts Tissue necrosis, due to which it is known as ‘the brain-eating amoeba’. This brute has been causing frequent deaths of people around the world since the year 1962 and its first victim belonged to Czechoslovakia. Since the organism is not so common worldwide that’s why people do not pay much attention towards it but number of deaths associated with it is increasing day by day throughout the world which is becoming a major cause of concern for our safety and health. The report highlights the major causes and symptoms of PAM so that people should have awareness about the fatal outcomes, this organism causes.

Author(s): Somia Gul and Umaima Alam

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