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Doctors on PAM alert after death of baby
SEPTEMBER 26, 201612:05AM
Sarah Wiedersehn
Australian Associated Press
Doctors are urged to be on alert this summer for a very rare but deadly brain disease in children that is contracted by swimming in lakes and rivers.
The warning follows the death of a 12 month-old boy at Townsville Hospital, Australia's latest victim of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM).
From a nearby West Queensland cattle-farming area, the baby boy was unable to breathe on his own within 18 hours of leaving home with a persistent high fever and lethargy, and died in 2015.
PAM is caused by Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba - a type of organism - found in warm fresh water, such as ponds, lakes, rivers, hot springs and poorly maintained municipal water supplies.
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SEPTEMBER 26, 201612:05AM
Sarah Wiedersehn
Australian Associated Press
Doctors are urged to be on alert this summer for a very rare but deadly brain disease in children that is contracted by swimming in lakes and rivers.
The warning follows the death of a 12 month-old boy at Townsville Hospital, Australia's latest victim of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM).
From a nearby West Queensland cattle-farming area, the baby boy was unable to breathe on his own within 18 hours of leaving home with a persistent high fever and lethargy, and died in 2015.
PAM is caused by Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba - a type of organism - found in warm fresh water, such as ponds, lakes, rivers, hot springs and poorly maintained municipal water supplies.
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